Tulip
by Celine Marchbank, Dewi Lewis, £35, 152 pages, hardback, ISBN 978-1-907893-87-2
IN 2009, Sue Miles was diagnosed with lung cancer and a brain tumour. In an attempt to come to terms with news of such magnitude, her daughter Celine began to document her mother through the minutiae of her life. Recently we saw Nancy Borowick's project about her parents' diagnosis in The Family Imprint. Where Borowick's story was told through grand black & white images, Marchbank takes a more poetic and tender approach. Each image focuses on the smallest details – cushions, the washing up, raindrops, light pouring through a window and, most importantly, flowers, a recurring symbol throughout. These delicate images are interspersed with portraits of Sue as she moves through the stages of her illness. What Marchbank…
