Dad Having a Nap by Phillip Toledano

Aperture is pleased to present a very special new limited edition print Dad Having a Nap from photographer Phillip Toledano’s critically acclaimed and moving project Days With My Father. Published in book form in June 2010, Days With My Father is a series of photographs documenting the Photographer’s father’s struggle with short term memory loss. Touching, but never intrusive, the work addresses the humor, sadness and hope experienced by father and son during a fleeting period. Initially of a personal nature Days With My Father took on new meanings after it was published on the artist’s website in the summer of 2008. The project website became viral, receiving thousands of visitors each day and inspiring an outpouring of emails and comments from people sharing their own stories. An exhibition of the series, Days With My Father is currently on view at 339 Gallery in Philadelphia through November 6th.

Phillip Toledano’s work appeared in Aperture magazine issue 193 which included a feature on his body of work Phone Sex. The photographer’s most recent series of photographs is currently making its solo show debut at the Klompching gallery in New York. This exhibition entitled A New Kind of Beauty will be on view through October, 29th.

Click here for details on the new Phillip Toledano limited edition.

Phillip Toledano: A New Kind of Beauty
On view September 9th – October 29th, 2010

Klompching gallery
111 Front Street, suite 206
Brooklyn, New York
T: 212-796-2070

© Phillip Toledano

In his very personal project, Days with my Father, Phillip Toledano has taken photography, memoir, and diary and combined them into a beautifully sincere visual journey. Days with my Father is a moving representation of Toledano’s life with his father after his mother died. Toledano’s mother had shielded her son from the full extent of his father’s dementia, which had eradicated his short-term memory. The images are vivid, the light is radiant and the writing is honest, simple and thoughtful, in ways both light-hearted and heartbreaking.

Phillip Toledano was featured in the Winter 2008 issue of Aperture magazine with his project Phonesex.