This photo was taken in the Vatican Museums in Rome, Italy. From the website ancient-mythology.com:
In Greek mythology, Laocoön was a Trojan priest of Apollo, or sometimes Poseidon. He was the son of Acoetes, the brother of Anchises and an uncle to Aeneas.
When the Greek soldiers left Troy during the Trojan War, leaving behind their gift of a wooden horse, Laocoön sensed the danger. He objected to the Trojan’s willingness to bring the horse within Troy’s walls, suspecting that it may be a trap. (Laocoön was right, but the Trojans didn’t listen and brought the horse, which contained hiding Greek soldiers, into the city anyways.)
To punish Laocoön and silence his warnings, Athena summoned two large snakes from the sea to attack and kill Laocoön and his two sons.
The statue is thought to date back as far 20 BC, and rediscovered in 1506. When discovered, the statue was missing the right arm of Laocoon along with part of the hand from one child and the arm of the other. There were many interpretations of how the arm of Laocoon was positioned so the Pope commissioned a contest between sculpters to determine how best the arm should be positioned.
The photo was taken using a Kodak V1253 compact digital camera and some post work done in Photoshop CS including black and white and levels.
F-Stop: f/3.4 | Exposure: 1/60s | ISO Speed: 125