Monica Leggio

About Monica Leggio

Combining her studies in architecture and photography with her endless love for poetry and literature, Monica Leggio developed her signature style over the past decade documenting weddings around Europe and worldwide, with an honest approach and a gentle, empathetic attitude. Her captivation for the patina of time and her leaning towards the grace of imperfection, naturally led her back to film photography, where she originally came from, as the medium par excellence that allows her vision to pour into her photographs. Her aim is to create a truthful narrative where feelings, emotions, atmospheres and minor details all blend together harmoniously. Monica is available worldwide for a limited number of commissions per year, allowing herself to be fully present in each wedding with care and mindfulness.

Behind The Brand

What draws you to wedding photography?

As someone who’s always been fascinated by family stories and memories, I would say that being invested with the privilege of creating myself a family’s milestone memory is indeed what draws me to wedding photography. I’ve been collecting antique wedding and family photographs for long time, and I probably did it also with the aim of honoring the stories behind them and preserving them from being neglected. That is basically what I do when documenting weddings.

How would you describe your photography style?

That peculiar blend of documentary and editorial approach that organically mirrors the complexity and the wide range of shades a wedding is made of.

What inspires you creatively?

Poetry and literature are indeed my first and endless source of inspiration, the substrate that constantly nourishes me as a person and affects the way I perceive, interpret and portray life around me. Also, my natural sense of nostalgia for ages and places I’ve never lived in allows me to feel a deep connection with certain places and draw inspiration from the so called genius loci. And last, my deeply sensitive and empathetic nature has always made me find the divine in the detail, may it be a gesture, a sound, the way a ray of light falls onto a surface, a new leaf unfolding from a plant, the smile of a stranger.

What is it that makes an image magical?

Its capability of making the observer feel the sounds, the smells, the voices and sense all the other minor stories that were lying just outside the edges of the frame.

What advice would you give couples when selecting their wedding photographer?

Look for someone that resonates with you as a person. Affinity in terms of photographic language and style will most probably be a direct, natural outcome.

Your dream location to shoot a wedding?

A decadent, abandoned masseria in a field of carob trees in Sicily.

Editor’s Notes

Why we love her…

The stories that unfurl around us, without our awareness. Time passing. Glances that are quickly forgotten. All of it is ethereally captured and preserved by the otherworldly images produced by Monica Leggio. Inspired by literature, architecture, and narrative, her visuals are woven with tangible beauty, distilling each with evocative nostalgia.

For the couple…

Dreaming of imagery that poetically tells their story back to them. Monica captures the moments that slip through the cracks, escaping us, providing indelible pieces of art to love and linger with throughout time.