Istumbled upon this website the other day and ended up spending a good twenty minutes looking at the photos and reading the content upon it.
Usually I’m not overly fond of photography featuring old people and it seems like it is very quickly becoming a cliche subject matter within photography, my dislike isn’t helped by the fact that my old photography lecturer constantly suggested I photograph old people or ‘weird’ old people, ones that knit tea cozies believe it or not.
However all of this aside the images on this site made me stop, and made me want to look at them I ended up looking at them all and I must say some of them are the most beautifully heartbreaking images I have ever seen. They actually brought tears to my eyes. I’m not sure if its partly because of my fear of my own parents growing old but the images and the text really touched me. I think maybe I love these because they’re not just about an old person, they’re not just about showing how interesting the lines on someones face are they’re about someones father and its so easy to forget sometimes that a person is something to someone.
What do you think of this set of images?
Phillip Tolendano photographs quite a lot of different subject matter and is a really great photographer so if the thought of looking at pictures of his father bores you then you should check out his other stuff here
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