14 DAY TRIAL // One of the most romantic gestures ever involves a middle-aged man, a pink tutu, inspired landscapes and a camera, brought together to make a cancer-suffering wife laugh during chemo. Even if it sounds bizarre, it is actually an amazing gesture that turned into a worldwide project to support the breast cancer community.
Bob and Linda share an incredible love story that grew even stronger after the woman was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003. Her loving husband decided to support her in the best way he knew, by making her laugh. So, he got a pink tutu and started taking hilarious photographs of himself in the ballerina skirt to keep his wife smiling.
Traveling the county to find the perfect landscapes for his pink tutu photographs, Bob kept his wife smiling. Linda was taking the ridiculous images with her to chemotherapy sessions to make time pass faster and entertain herself and the other cancer patients.
After seeing the positive feedback brought by the photographs, the couple decided to take it a step forward and transformed it into a project meant to raise awareness and support for breast cancer patients. Linda was an example with her personal battle and Bob was the exact amount of crazy and attractive that the project needed to be a success.
“The Tutu Project began in 2003 as a lark, I mean, really, think of it. Me photographing myself in a pink tutu, how crazy is that?” Bob says on the project's official website. The amount of work and creativity the photographer put into his art had the most amazing result.
“Oddly enough, her cancer has taught us that life is good, dealing with it can be hard, and sometimes the very best thing – no, the only thing – we can do to face another day it to laugh at ourselves, and share a laugh with others,” Bob says in the Tutu Project's story video.
The collection of Bob's tutu photographs and his numerous stories from his adventure were all gathered in a self-published book called Ballerina. All the funds gathered from the sales of the Ballerina collection go directly to a non-profit organization that helps raise funds for breast cancer patients.
