to lie// in the shade// of a tree // with you
Tyrell McBride
Self-Published
English
Hardback
Single edition
36 pages
160 × 270 mm
2024
ISBN Not Available
“To me, memory and photography are separate but share more similarities than we know of or even care to admit. They are both these ghost-like entities that defy time and neither of them can ever be truly accurate either. What both things can do is construct a story when properly placed. This is what I tried to capitalise on in my two previous bodies of work. For the past two chapters of my work, I have been heavily influenced by “Divina Commedia” by Dante Alighieri, an Italian, writer, politician, poet, and philosopher. His book was separated into three, the first being Inferno, the second being Purgatorio and the third and final being Paradiso. I followed Alighieri in the same fashion, although I did not know I was doing so at the time. The first chapter of my work, “to lie in the shade of a tree” was started just before my grandmother passed away, this was of course a dark time in my life and the images were reflected in this light.” – Tyrell McBride
(Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/C1B2DSKM8lb/?img_index=6)
About the Artist
Tyrell McBride (b.1997) is a contemporary photographer currently residing in Dublin, Ireland. McBride’s works typically deal with memory, nostalgia, melancholia and the vernacularity of the family archive. His technique usually involves medium format black and white imagery, pairing archival and contemporary images together, to explore not only his own past, but the past of those who came before. Heavily influenced by Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, he now creates more internalised images of the family and of home, to further gain a sense of self.
