Phillip Toledano

Best known for his "Man in a baby suit", photographer Phillip Toledano has a depth of work which probes at social issues that affect today. As he puts it, he "subtracts things from his photos, using the framing and color to dramatize a shot. For example, a shot of a car salesman has the top of the head framed off, leaving just the grin, whilst the focus is the gold jewelry on the hands. In another, a man is chewing at a piece of bloody, red meat. There’s an uncomfortable quiet in some of his photos. From abandoned offices to shots of the arctic circle, a certain stillness pervades throughout each series of photographs, like some strange theatrical play frozen in time, each shot a tense moment in life where you pause and think. You’ll love Toledano’s work if you can appreciate a bit of sometimes twisted humor–but in his body of work (no pun intended) there’s sure to be something which will get you thinking.