They're pictures taken by University of Washington photography students.

Their work brightens this dark time for patients and their families.

"It makes people feel comfortable and familiar and they feel at home in a situation that can be very anxiety producing here," says Peggy Weiss, Harborview's Art Program Manager.

Twelve students from one class took the pictures. Sarah Skinner decided to give her camera to others.

She asked them to shoot hope, and three people at Harborview accepted her challenge: a trauma surgeon, a patient's wife, and a former patient, Brian Chaffin, paralyzed from the chest down, after breaking his back in a fall.

Brian volunteers at Harborview now.

"Sure I like photography. I'll take pictures. No problem," Brian says, as he took Sarah's camera.

Brian took the pictures from his wheelchair, pointing the camera up, as he took pictures of the tall buildings outside Harborview. For Brian, hope is: "freedom of choice, freedom of where you are, feeling that you have some say in where you're going."

Brian felt that freedom, as he went around the hospital taking pictures of hope.

Sarah was impressed.

"I guess the way I see it, hope somehow in these photos resembles this very upward movement; this very vertical life force coming up. These buildings coming up and they have a sense of grandeur about them," Sarah says.

Hope. It's something we feel. But in the corridors of Harborview, it's something we see.

The Harborview Exhibit, which has been taken down to make room for another exhibit, was created by third year photography students at the University of Washington.