Little Acorns

Audrey Hepburn in Switzerland in 1955. Switzerland, her adopted home, is where she would die in 1993.

As a working photographer, I make it a habit to undertake 1 or 2 personal photo projects a year. This helps me push my own creative boundaries that’s often limited in commissioned work to narrates the client’s vision or concept. Personal projects also help me “grow” as an artist. Three years ago, I started a photo project photographing “stay-at-home” dads in Toronto. I used to be a stay-at-home dad myself. I met many stay-at-home fathers at the park and community centres. I decided to do this project to highlight the ever-growing role of fathers as homemakers. States Zosia Bielski of the Globe and Mail, “The number of fathers staying at home with their children has doubled since 1989, and the fastest growing segment of these men are staying home because they’ve chosen to take care of their kids, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center” (“Stay-at-home dads on the rise – increasingly because they want to be” 5 June 2014). Reasons for the growth of the father-as-homemaker range from the global economic recession to the simple desire of the father to be with the children. Since the mid-1970s, the rate of stay-at-home fathers in Canada has risen 120 percent. I’ve heard the stories of families impacted and involved in the shifting demographic – of their struggle with stigmas and their newfound routines and joys. My goal was to document unique visual narratives of this trend one photograph at a time. I called the project Dads at Home. I was actively developing it as the visual archiving of a relevant trend in Canadian familial structure and functionality as well as a contribution to the diverse artistic culture of Ontario. This project became larger than I anticipated. My request for a grant to complete this project was unsuccessful and consequently most of the image files from the project got corrupted when an external drive crashed. A big lesson to back up regularly.

I want this as a tattoo. 

Music box puts kitten to sleep. (via osirisosito)

J’Shon Perkins  photographed by DeJarius Evans

Part 2: https://catchymemes.com/post/177160442188/life-of-crocodile-pt-2

IRAN. Tehran. 1998. Girls play football in their school courtyard. A. Abbas

Maddie’s Sweet Spot