Becoming a parent changes you and your relationship with your partner. True as this is, banal statements of this kind say little about what fathering is like and do nothing to prepare you for the riot of emotions that go with the job.
NYC-based photographer Phillip Toledano‘s The Reluctant Father goes a long way to addressing the reality in humourous and ultimately touching way..
He likens confronting the fruit of his loins to a series of close encounters with an alien being.
His experience was all the more traumatic because, as he freely admits, “I was never particularly interested in having kids”. It was just something that happened. Continue reading
