Tyrone Anderson Photographer

Tyrone ‘Don't Smile’ embarked on a journey to encapsulate the essence of childhood, a visual narrative story told by individual portraits of children that stems from many levels of his own personal experience of childhood loss. The loss was weeks and months spent alone and in isolation in hospitals due to illness. The children I photographed seamlessly melded with the echoes of my own childhood past of loneliness and anxiety.

Exploring loneliness that can cast a long darkness over a child's world, isolation is as diverse as the children themselves.

Various research projects and studies have supported the advancement of photographic storytelling in the landscape of a lonely child's world.