About


Leigh Webber

Leigh Webber at the edge of a pool holding her underwater camera housing

Leigh Webber is a Charleston, SC fine art photographer known for underwater portraiture.

A graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design, she has photographed in Charleston since 2003 and has been a contract photographer for Spoleto Festival USA since 2009. In 2013 she founded DIVE IN, a luxury underwater portrait experience for families. Sessions are photographed in Charleston, and by special arrangement DIVE IN has traveled to Miami, the Hamptons and Harbour Island. Her fine art series Underwater Altars photographs collected objects submerged in sunlit water.

She has served as Artist in Residence at The Charleston Place and Montage Palmetto Bluff in collaboration with Garden & Gun. Her work has appeared in Garden & Gun, Coastal Living and Charleston Magazine, and was selected for National Geographic Your Shot's assignment "The Pool."

She writes DIVE IN Beneath the Surface, a Substack about art, water and going deeper.

You have to leave some space for things just to happen. And I think those are the good things.

Leigh Webber

Credentials

Education

Savannah College of Art and Design

Spoleto Festival USA

Contract photographer since 2009

Artist in Residence

The Charleston Place
Montage Palmetto Bluff, with Garden & Gun

Published in

Garden & Gun, Coastal Living, Charleston Magazine, National Geographic Your Shot