Digital subscriptions provided by the City of Gulfport THE GABBER.COM No. 2779 September 22, 2022 - September 28, 2022
Senior Picture Day In all, 21 seniors walked in and out of Marian Tagliarino’s St. Petersburg home. They came, bared their soul to the camera, and went back to their respective apartments in various Pinellas senior housing residencies. These seniors make up Tagliarino’s St. Petersburg Arts Alliance-funded Sunshine Elders: SEE ME project. Westminster Suncoast, the Enoch D. Davis Center, and American House St. Petersburg will host the portraiture exhibit through October. Originally, Tagliarino wanted to photograph as many seniors as she could inside their personal dwellings but decided to opt for a more streamlined approach with the same lighting and background for everyone. “They all had different socio-economic backgrounds, and I didn’t want it to be about that,” Tagliarino said. “I wanted it to be about them.” The St. Pete photographer hatched the idea to take pictures of people 65 years and older because she feels older people fall through photographic cracks and are often not photographed in their later years. Picture Day continued on page 15
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