Boston photographer and subjects help each other heal
Veteran
Boston Globe photographer John Tlumacki took more than 200 photos when the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon.
He was especially
haunted by the images he took of 17-year-old Sydney Corcoran and her
48-year-old mother, Celeste.
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Photographer bonds with Boston bombing victims
Photographer bonds with Boston bombing victims
"I didn't want to have that image in my head of them laying on the ground," photographer John Tlumacki says. "I needed a new picture of them, and I asked them if I could take a picture of them, and they just kind of looked at each other and smiled."
Photographer bonds with Boston bombing victims
Photographer bonds with Boston bombing victims
"One of the first times that Celeste stood up by herself without holding on to anything ... that was, for me, day one of Celeste being energized and courageous, being Boston strong," Tlumacki says.
Photographer bonds with Boston bombing victims
Photographer bonds with Boston bombing victims
"To just be in my brother's car and out of a hospital and to know I was going home, I was just so ecstatic, and I was like, 'Alright, take me home!'" Sydney recalls.
Photographer bonds with Boston bombing victims
"They wheeled me in, and I threw up my arms, just like she did," Celeste says. "And was just like, 'Yes, I'm home.'"
Photographer bonds with Boston bombing victims
Photographer bonds with Boston bombing victims
Photographer bonds with Boston bombing victims
Photographer bonds with Boston bombing victims
Photographer bonds with Boston bombing victims
