Ana Brandt International Certification Program - Anja Maesen

Anja Maesen comes from an artistic and musical family, so she was raised while art surrounded her.

As a child, she followed ballet classes and was a successfull ballet teacher for the Royal Academy of Dancing.

At 22, she got a Master Degree at the Royal School of Fine Arts in Antwerp, as a Jewelry Designer.

The love for Photography was always present, but Anja only started actively practicing Photography in 2018.

But, like the perfectionist she is, she completely threw herself to it to reach her goal.

She knows what she wants and doesn’t stop to get there. It is absolutely amazing what she has accomplished in these few years of hard work. Persistence pays off, next to the fact that she has an enormous talent which she perfectly knows how to put to use. She is a professional in her work and her communication with her clients.

As a photographer, she has a keen eye for art, composition, colour, form and lighting. She can perfectly put this to use in her New Born and Maternity Photography.

You can see this in the many Awards she has won for the Baby Photo Awards and the Legacy Photography Awards. She has been awarded with several First places internationally and for the year 2022, she even got crowned to Photographer of the Year in the Category of Newborn Photography.

She has been professionally trained and certified by Ana Brandt, one of the most recognized newborn and maternity photographers in the world.

She has a perseverance in reaching for the stars in all that she does. All the goals she has reached today came from hard work and sticking to her dreams.