Flashes of Hope

Here are some portraits I took for a recent Flashes of Hope Madison session. This is a really cool organization and I am glad to have the opportunity to volunteer - basically it brings together volunteer photographers, printers, coordinators, and stylists to make photographic portraits of children (and their families) who are going through an intense health crisis, often with some form of cancer. These were taken at UW Children's Hospital in Madison, WI.

Many of these kids and their families have so much resilience and courage. It seems that God created us with an ability to rise to certain challenges, at least this is one way to interpret things and it's what I believe. It is striking to experience a little slice of the joy a human life can have in the midst of serious health struggles.