a story | a legacy of visionary people | artists | creatives | rooted in diversity
Our roots begin in Italy and Nicaragua—in places where craft is a language, family is a foundation, and beauty is never separate from meaning.
Bellissimo was born from a belief: that photographs should feel timeless not because they follow a trend, but because they carry truth—light, atmosphere, emotion, and the quiet details that define a family’s story.
“True elegance is rarely loud. It lives in balance, restraint, and objects made to endure.
The Bellissimo approaches wedding photography as a disciplined visual practice—rooted in refinement, discretion, and permanence. We work with editorial precision and a documentary heart: composed frames, clean light, and a calm presence that allows real life to unfold.
Every commission is guided with intention—from the first conversation to the final edit and album design—so the work remains coherent, authored, and deeply personal. We don’t deliver “coverage.” We craft a narrative artifact.
a
boutique studio experience
The Bellissimo was founded by Alice Tramontina with the intention of approaching wedding photography as a disciplined visual practice rooted in refinement, discretion, and permanence. With the visionary approach of Mauricio, and avant guarde take to photography, the Bellissimo offers a unique artistic and editorial eye.
Their work is guided by architectural awareness and editorial precision, balancing atmosphere with structure. Each commission is shaped through careful art direction, ensuring the celebration is documented with cinematic and cultural sensitivity.
Founder & Creative Director
ALICE TRAMONTINA
Alice is an editorial and fine-art photographer with a designer’s eye and a love for quiet, cinematic storytelling. After 8 years as professional wedding photographers specialised in destination weddings, and 4 most fabulous as mother, she bridges image-making and brand thinking with ease. Her romantic and heirloom vision flows trough editorial aesthetics enhancing the way she perceive love narratives.
Alice’s vision was formed inside a lineage of making. Her grandmother was a wedding dress designer—where measurement, fabric, and handwork weren’t simply technique, but devotion. That legacy continued with her father, the founder of Graphistudio, one of the world’s most influential wedding album companies. Alice grew up surrounded by a culture of craft: paper, texture, binding, design, and the idea that what we create should outlast a season.
As a photographer, Alice brings a designer’s eye to storytelling—romantic but restrained, editorial but human. She is drawn to quiet cinematic moments, to elegance that doesn’t perform, and to images that feel like memory rather than spectacle. She personally oversees every wedding accepted by the atelier, maintaining continuity from art direction to album design.
MAURICIO
ARIAS
named top 10 world's wedding
photographer
Mauricio is an internationally acclaimed wedding photographer known for turning real moments into unforgettable art. Born in Nicaragua, raised in California, and now based in Italy, he brings a global sensibility to every assignment. Before launching this new chapter, Mauricio spent 15 years with Chrisman Studios, earning recognition from leading organizations (including MyWed, Fearless Photographers, ISPWP, and Junebug Weddings) and teaching 35+ workshops worldwide.
Co-Lead / Photographer / Artist
Mauricio's refined perspective shaped by his background in design and artisanal production.
Working in alignment with Alice’s creative direction, he supports the continuity of each commission—particularly during multi-day celebrations—ensuring consistency, discretion, and cohesion across every moment documented.
His understanding of heirloom album design further strengthens the atelier’s commitment to permanence and craftsmanship.
Mauricio’s roots begin in Nicaragua—where family, unity in diversity, and a wide spiritual education shaped the way he sees the world. That foundation gave him a rare sensitivity: the ability to read energy in a room, to anticipate human emotion, and to photograph beyond what’s obvious.
As an artist and photographer, he became known early for a bold point of view—an avant-garde sensibility grounded in truth. His work doesn’t chase novelty; it refines perspective. Architecture, negative space, and cinematic pacing become tools to reveal meaning, not to decorate it. Over time, his style has influenced a generation of photographers, not because it’s louder—but because it’s authored.
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international
luxury collective
Based between Italy and California,we work with international clients in worldwide celebrations with a network of professionals trusted colleagues from europe, north and south america.
"Each celebration concludes with a bespoke heirloom album crafted in Italy—an intentional final expression of the work."
—approach