he talked about the project in the first person report. >> i'm michael fogherty, i'm the founder of theroject called dear world. >> instead of letting the tragedy break us, we made a simple choice - to keep running. >> for the past four years i've been asking thousands of people to share a message to someone or something they care about. our most recent project was with survivors of the baton marathon. we decided to do a world series when i met a man named dave forteay. he was a runner. at the event that i was taking portraits at. dave wrote healing above the side of his head. right over his ear, where he's lost a part of his hearing. he is telling the part of the story where he was affected. i said i would love to photograph the rest of the survivors are or anyone you mite know. >> the first thing that is important is the messages on the skin. their portraits are their's. >> we had checks to make sure we got the portraits down, the last one of our subjects wrote it on her thighs with the prosthetics off. we talk so much about the healing process of everyone involved in this, and i thin