About Oggi

On his way out the door to photograph a wedding 30 years ago, my husband Stephan stopped on the porch, turned around and said, “Why don’t you come and photograph candids of the guests? I’ll meet you there.” I found a babysitter and thus started our wonderful, crazy life as commercial photographers. Even then we loved the creative capture of otherwise unseen moments.

We became a commercial and fine art studio, and a teaching workshop on the coast of Bristol, RI. Thus the name of our parent company, Bristol Workshops. The studio grew and evolved. We found a home of our own in Bristol, RI and continued our love affair with all things photographic.

And then the world grew. Really fast! Computers, and iPhones allowed clients to plan a Newport wedding from their office in SanFrancisco with a designer from Boston, clothing from NYC, and a photographer from Bristol, RI. So we rebranded as Oggi photography, a tech savvy, innovative and fun-loving company that offered wedding and commercial photography.

In 2016 our studio officially stopped doing weddings, happily relinquishing that wonderful work to the amazing Blueflash Studio. And still obsessed with making photographic artifacts, I follow my creative heart wherever it leads: found art, sweet families, a graduation, a concert, a pony.

My name is Julie. I share my studio, life and energy with my sweetheart husband, our dog Shirley, and cat Bellina. When I leave my indoor creative space, it is usually to visit my old horse Curley and some chickens. My life is an exploration of nature and joy through movement and art. My photography is an exploration of light and the beauty in each of my selected subjects.

Each today is new and full of joyful possibilities. Oggi (“today” in Italian) is just that!