In 2003, a photographer named Bob Carey put on a pink tutu and took a picture of himself, as a way of helping to raise money for a ballet company. About six months later, his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. As she went through treatment, he found that one thing that made her laugh was the sight of him in the tutu.
Since then, he has taken over 100 pictures of himself in the tutu, in all sorts of settings: in the desert, in Times Square, in a snow storm, in a subway station. Here's a sample of his work:
He's planning on putting all of the photos into a book, to be published in the fall. For now, he's selling prints of individual photos, as well as t-shirts, with all of the money going to organizations that help breast cancer patients, including cancercare.org and the Beth Israel Hospital Department of Integrative Medicine.
Certainly a worthy cause worth supporting. The Tutu Project website can be found here.
It's such a wonderful thing, being able to use his talent and humor to help others.
And for him, on a more personal level, it says a lot about him to be willing to dress up like that just to make his spouse laugh. It takes a pretty special person to dress up in a silly way just to make a spouse with cancer a little happier....Yup...pretty special....
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