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Tulip a book by Celine Marchbank
Celine Marchbank a newcomer to the Art Collective was shortlisted by Deutsche Bank Award for Photography for a book that she produced, called Tulip. Celine is now keen to seek a publisher for the book, we have chosen a few words by Celine to describe the book and some images can be found in her gallery on the website or the full book can be reviewed here.
Tulip
In September 2009 my mother was diagnosed with cancer, and 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. What this project became was perhaps an object to hide behind, to protect myself from the reality of the devastating situation unfolding in front of me, but most valuable to me was the opportunity it gave to say good bye to my mother in a way that words could never do.
by Celine Marchbank.
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