Time magazine photoograph

The photograph that i choose to do was of a surviving cancer patient. Some backround history of him is that he is 55, he had oral cancer and was diagnosed on March 2008. His name is Robert and he has never smoked a day in his life. He went to go get tested one day and turns out he had to get 30% of his tongue cut out. He is now going threw speach therapy and hopefully after the feeding tubes and speach is better he can go back to becoming the teacher he was before this fiasco.

I really like this photograph alot. I like how the backround is grey, and he is holding an black umbrella. On top of all of that he is wearing a bright yellow t- shirt. I feel like the photographer, is trying to send the message of even threw dark times there is always a time to shine threw. It wont be long until the rainy days pass;somethign along the lines of that. It also gives of a chance of hope in the picture with Robert ( the one being photographed ) smirking. He just seems happy to beable to have positive outcome out of all of this chaos. It reminds me of that song " rain drops keep falling on my head, because im free, nothign is worrying me ". I get that whole sense out of it too. I get a sense of that he is calm threw all of hte chaos going around him.



( the picture wont paste on the blog but here is the url to it.)

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1840640_1763948,00.html