Phillip Toledano doc­u­ments his strug­gle deal­ing with his father’s demen­tia fol­low­ing the death of his mother in his touch­ing and beau­ti­fully crafted photo-series, Days with My Father. This quote from Shape and Colour says what I’m think­ing more elo­quently than I ever could.

It takes a real artist to know when some­thing is spe­cial enough to sim­ply be doc­u­mented, and not nec­es­sar­ily explored or extrap­o­lated on. To give some­thing room to breathe and hold it’s own based only on the fact that you’ve found the strength to share it. I don’t take it lightly when artists take their most per­sonal moments and reveal them to me, trust­ing that hope­fully the cycle of cre­ator and receiver will nur­ture us both. There’s some­thing del­i­cate and ten­u­ous in the act of let­ting your story go in the desire that it will mean as much to a stranger as it does to you.

via Kot­tke