![]() ![]() We spoke with Shawn McBride about this work and his plans. It is an enormous challenge: there are around 350,000 negatives and the same number of slides to look through there are many prints to be preserved and the correspondence and writings from six decades need to be archived. In addition to extensive renovation work to be done on the property, Shawn’s aim is to examine the whole of his father's archive and, ultimately, to display the work in future exhibitions. His estate has now found a home in a small village in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania: the photographer's eldest son, Shawn McBride, has been living with his family at Bristow Manor in the community of Schorssow, since 2016. He travelled the world for his work, lived for a while in Italy, and finally made his home in Berlin, till the end of his life. He became a successful magazine and commercial photographer, with a studio in Munich and later in Frankfurt. A life with many chapters: Will McBride (1931-2015) came to Germany as a GI at the beginning of the fifties, and decided to stay. ![]()
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