True Heroes

Today I will share this beautiful project with you: True Heroes, a book with phantasy photographs and stories written by best-selling authors like Shannon Hale and Brandon Mull. This project is strated by a Salt Lake City lawyer-turned-photographer named Jonathan Díaz.

His book contains the stories of 21 pediatric cancer young patients who were photographed posing for make true their dreams: from a pirate and a mermaid to batman. Diaz is amazed of the childre'ns optimism: "In spite of them fighting a painful disease that is hard to their young bodies, they're so full of hope. And I wanted to share that hope throught their fantasies."

He started his photograph career when his mother gave him a Nikon camera for Christmas 2011. Then he take classes about exposure and lightening, and when he went home, he set up a tripod in the basement and strated taking pictures of his kids(4). Pretty soon, he was photoshopping pictures.

With donations from the public and corporate sponsors, he elaborated sets and costumes for children with cancer, so they could live their phantasy for a day. "The kids want to be princesses, they want to be soccer heores, fairies and firemen", he says. "To see them smiling and laughing at the photo shoots makes it all worthwhile. I love that they're able to forget their worries for a while and live out their dreams."

You can buy the book at Amazon for 14 pounds.