Topic: Phillip Toledano - Days With My Father - A very moving piece....

[beck]

I just have to share this as most of us here are older with aging parents. And to those who unfortunately no longer. It has been some time were I was so moved by something, outside of my own father getting older and fragile before my eyes. This did just that. I weep as I type. This story is that incredible....


I might add....that it may appear to be tricky to navigate this page so see what you can do.

http://www.dayswithmyfather.com/default.aspx

[Ed Wenn]

This is a very moving gallery/piece/work. I saw it a few months ago and now I'm wondering how I came across it because I don't get enough time to scour t'Internet for cool photography, so I'm wondering if it wasn't mentioned here already? Anyway, I second Becky's recommendation. This is absolutely worth a look.

[original_ann]

I completely agree.   I just recently noticed my own parents' fragility and was thinking about this piece and how I must not delay in capturing their essence, their details.  I think I sent this link to everyone I knew when I came across it.  So utterly inspiring, gutwrenching, powerful, how I wish I could have seen it when my grandparents and great aunts and uncles were still living. 

[Hannah]

Oh my, so sad 

[rolo]

Thanks for finding and sharing this.  Truly beautiful and moving.  Phillip Toledano is a terrific photographer and generally wry artist.  This is such direct and heartfelt work.  Really lovely (if a PITA to navigate!).

[synj00]

Thanks for sharing this. I'm glad to have a look at it again. I sent this to many people when I found it a while back. Some folks are moved to tears, others aren't so sensitive to this sort of thing. A very strange learning experience just having seen this piece, and in that respect, it is a great and relevant piece of art.

[Sunny_16]

Such a beautiful and sad body of work.

Clare x

[MarkBurley]

You managed to wrong foot me instantly. I am not normally an emotional man - period. But I found this post to be very moving. It has reminded me to resume taking images of my Mother - and I will regret not doing so...

Thank you.

I may post a few here to see what you all may think - Regards to all...

Mark

[Ken B: eyes, I just do eyes.]

What a wonderful celebration of that mans life. How good is his son to be able to not walk away but stay the course knowing it would never get any easier. The photo essay was absolutely  beautiful, it didn't make me sad at all actually, it made me happy to know that the son was there and will have that memory to draw on the rest of his life.

I had the privilege to travel from Oz to the UK and then USA with my father as his carer on a trip a few years ago, a trip of a lifetime sort of trip. He is a quiet man, my mother is the boisterous one, however I had the foresight to just sit and shutup and let him slowly but surely make the effort to get conversation going. I listened to him for hours everyday, and to see the delight in his face as he stood looking up at Edinburgh Castle and telling me it was something he had resigned himself to the fact he would never do. It was bloody magic stuff.

I learnt so much about his early life before he was married and before I was around after he married, how he really felt about stuff etc. He is still alive, living with my mother back in Oz, they are quite elderly now and when I was concerned about leaving them behind while we went galvanting around the planet he just said he would be angry if I didn't go and that life is life and it will happen no matter where you are standing.

I love my Dad