About
Leigh Webber
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 WebberCredentials
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
