Phillip Toledano 

One of Toledano’s most famous pieces is his work called ‘Days with my Father, When I was Six’ Toledano took this work within the last few days that he had with his father as he had short term memory loss.  Toledano’s mother suddenly passed away in 2006 and he realised that his mother had been hiding him from the fact that his father has a mental illness. So Toledano took these image to savior the last few moments that he had with his father. I think that this would be a really interesting aspect of family to explore by following one of my family members around and photographing their everyday life. Usually to make these kinds of images you need to take a lot of photographs to have the same effect through the image that you take.

For one of my idea for the theme family i was thinking about following one of my family members around and taking some images of their life. These images have inspired me to photograph my grandma and see the comparisons between their two lives as she is fit and well. I think that this would be an interesting concept to photograph. I think that this image shows on Toledano’s fathers face how confused he is, and also i think that this is quite an upsetting image as the father looks hurt. In these images the lighting and the composition of the photos are not important, what is important is capturing a memory or a moment with his father and i think that these images reflect their relationship.