Growing up in foster care, Shaheed rarely experienced parental love or tenderness. Now, as he became a father for the first time, he is discovering emotions previously unknown to him—profound, unconditional love for his daughter and an instinctive desire to shield her from life's dangers. 

As he describes it, “I found within me a tenderness that I never knew was there or even possible."

You are my Father - Shaheed & Nakhiya
2021 ISOuth Africa

Estonian documentary and fine art photographer



creator: /now • /portrait • /shakti •
https://linktr.ee/angelikakollin

"...a part of myself I never knew existed. It's like my heart has expanded in ways I didn't think were possible. Every time I hold her, I feel this overwhelming need to protect her, to give her everything I didn't have growing up. She’s teaching me what love really means."