Toledano is a English photographer born in 1968 in London, to a French Moroccan mother and an American father. He grew up in London and Casablanca. He received a BA in English literature from Tufts University in Boston. Toledano considers himself a conceptual artist: Everything starts with an idea, and the idea determines the execution. Consequently, his work varies in medium, ranging from photography to installation, sculpture, painting and video.

His project ‘When I was Six ‘, focuses on the short life of his younger sister Claudia  who passed away in a car accident when he was six, and then again was never spoke of again and subsequently because the elephant in the room between him and his mother and father, who found the situation too painful to speak about. After his both of his parents had passed away he found a box of all her her things neatly packed away by his mother. He used this project to get to know his sister who he a very little time with, the project also help him to understand how his parents dealt with the trauma of losing a child. 

‘This work was a way of getting to know Claudia. But it was also a way of getting to know my parents and their relationship with her. It gave me a glimpse into the pain and courage it took to stay together as husband and wife, as mother and father, to give me the beautiful life they gave me. I have no memories of my life after my sister’s death for a few years, other than an obsession with space, planets, and distant universes. Perhaps it was a way of being somewhere else, distant. Half of the images in the book are of the imagined landscapes that saved me, when I was a child that needed saving. The other half, of things that belonged to my sister. Things that explain who she was, how she loved my parents, and what happened after her death.’