Tulip by Celine Marchbank review – a daughter’s floral tribute

Celine Marchbank’s photographic journal of her mother’s terminal illness is rich in symbol and telling, everyday detail

British photographer Celine Marchbank has described her new book as a “delicate” project. The word is well chosen. Marchbank is a quiet observer of the everyday and here she applies her steadfastly low-key, almost diaristic approach to an immensely difficult subject: the last year of her mother’s life.

The camera allowed me just a couple of split seconds a day to record the things that would go on to mean so much

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