Days With My Father

Days With My Father

Sometimes, when we're talking, my dad will stop, and sigh, and close his eyes. It's then that I know he knows. About my mum. About everything.

Days With My Father is a son's photo journal of his father's last days.

My Mum died suddenly on September 4, 2006.

After she died I realised how much she'd been shielding me from my father's mental state.
He doesn't have Alzheimers, but he has no short term memory, and is often lost.
So this extraordinary book begins. Following the death of his mother, photographer Phillip Toledano was shocked to learn of the extent of his father's severe memory loss. He started a blog on which he posted photographs and reflections about his father.

Through his sad, funny and surprising observations, we follow Toledano as he learns to reconcile the elderly man living in a twilight of half memories with the ambitious and handsome young man he occasionally still sees.

Days With My Father is an honest and moving reflection about coming to terms with an aging parent. Sometimes heartbreaking and always moving, this a beautiful project that comes at a time when honest works about ageing have never been more important or relevant. Not to be missed.

Visit the website at: www.dayswithmyfather.com

Phillip Toledano was born in 1968 in London. He lives and works in New York City, where after a decade as an advertising art director, he returned to his true passion, photography, combining editorial work with personal projects. Since completing Days With My Father, Toledano has himself become a father.

Review: Deeply moving and confronting about watching parents age and our own mortality.

Days With My Father
Hachette Australia
Author: Phillip Toledano
ISBN: 9780733625510
Price: $29.99