Telling Timeless Stories Through Taste, Texture, and Time — in Color and B&W.

Monica McMillan is a Raleigh, NC native and third-generation entrepreneur who documents life through the lens of taste, texture, and time.

Creative coordinator with 8+ years of experience in entrepreneurship, marketing, events, and brand management and development. Her raw documentary photography and videography center agriculture, botanicals, and candid moments—capturing the quiet beauty in food, textiles, and family. With a focus on culture, connection, and the rhythm of real life, her work explores the everyday as art. Working in both color and black and white, her storytelling is rooted in memory and the legacy of kindred humanity.

rooted in .

Rooted in. is Monica’s first official body of work — a documentary-style photography collection that honors the raw, radiant essence of being human and recent collaborations that are meaningful to the work she reflects. This collection captures the quiet power of light as both a symbol and a guide — revealing not just what we see, but who we are beneath the surface.

Each image is an intentional meditation on presence, vulnerability, and truth. Inspired by the shadows we grow through and the light we grow toward, Rooted in. invites you to witness stories that live in stillness, softness, and soul.

This is not just a collection. It’s a reflection — of self, of community, of the unseen.

What are you rooted in?

Coming Soon

woven in blue.

Woven In Blue is an ongoing documentary project by Monica McMillan and Gordon Holliday exploring the deep-rooted legacy of indigo—across states and abroad. This visual journey traces the threads of history, land, and identity, as it intertwines Gordon’s Gullah Geechee heritage and fashion practice with Monica’s lineage of agricultural matriarchs and her foundation in textile art.

Together, they uncover the stories dyed into fabric—of resistance, resilience, and reclamation—while stitching their own narrative of cultural memory, creative expression, and ancestral inspiration. Woven In Blue is not just about color—it's about where we come from, what we carry, and how we wear our stories.

Coming Soon | End of Summer 2025