In short
Bruce Davidson Book signing at Howard Greenberg Gallery
DoDisturb au Palais de Tokyo
Carte Blanche Rubis Mécénat Cultural fund
In September 2009 Celine Marchbank’s mother, Sue Miles, was diagnosed with lung cancer and a brain tumour. Tulip is published as a beautiful book by Dewi Lewis Publishing this month, due to all the generous supporters of the successful crowdfounding campaign.
“While I was trying to come to terms with the fact she was dying, I decided I wanted, or maybe needed, to document the time she had left. I didn’t want to create a graphic portrayal of her death, it would have been impossible and wrong to focus only on the dying part, but rather I wanted to photograph our last months together. I looked at the things that made her uniquely her, the details in her house I thought I knew so well, the things that would also be gone when she was. Her love of flowers was a beautiful part of her personality; the house was always full of them, and as I photographed them I realised they were symbolic of what was happening – they represented happiness, love, kindness and generosity, but also isolation, decay, and finally death.”
BOOK
Tulip, My Mother’s favourite flower
Celine Marchbank
Clothbound hardback
152 pages, 84 colour photographs
220mm x 190mm
ISBN: 978-1-907893-87-2
£35.00
http://dewilewispublishing.com
http://www.celinemarchbank.com
