Fine Art Photography

Roberta Mangini Glisson

With the 2020 wedding season on pause due to COVID, I have been able to focus on the more creative side of photography. After years of telling other people’s stories, I have had the pleasure of telling and creating my own stories. I will be adding new projects over the coming months, but for now, I’d like to introduce In Time and Tide. 

In Time and Tide

In Time and Tide is my first endeavor into the worlds of both video and fine art photography. This project came about after years of working as a wedding photographer and spending my weekends documenting the joyous first moments of marriages, to then come home to a real working marriage of 23 years. I was fascinated with the contrast between the wedding celebration and the institution of marriage which was being celebrated. While I drew inspiration from the ebb and flow of my own experience in marriage, I also explored the loss of identity which often happens to a woman within the confines of marriage and domestic life.

In this piece, I animated a series of still images to feel reminiscent of old 16mm home movies and carousel slide show projection, which was the way I viewed my own parents’ marital history.