Sunday, September 16, 2007

James


James Rozwood was struck by lightning while with boy scouts in the woods when he was 16, now in his early 20s, he is in a wheel chair and has limited voluntary movement. The worst part of all, his mind works just fine according to his caregivers, but he is unable to talk. He communicates through blinks and smiles, and via DynaVox (the screen on his wheel chair) This picture was taken with 17-35mm with ISO 800. To me, the picture shows what it must be like to be James, trapped in his own body, and perhaps in his mind. The windows symbolizes the eyes, and the room symbolizes being inside his head. As though he is free to think anything he'd like, but unable to physically reach beyond the walls.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for writing this.