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Thursday December 3 marks 1000 days to go to the lighting of the Paralympic flame in London in 2012. For the next three days, a blog a day will celebrate pictorially the passing of the flame from Beijing to London, with photos from four British photographers - Graham Bool, Roger Bool, Tom Griffth and George S Blonsky, which formed a joint exhibition after the Beijing Games.
Coverage of big events like the Paralympics is dominated by Getty, Reuters, AP and the rest of the world’s leading news and picture agencies, however, none of this could stop Graham and his young charges, Tom, 26, son Roger 24, and seasoned international photojournalist George S Blonsky from seeing their images snapped up by the Daily Telegraph, South Wales Press, and Disability Now, as well as several charity and non-governmental organizations.
At London 2012, Graham plans to field the team again with the added advantage of working on home ground.
Graham added: “I’m certain that London and the UK will rise to the challenge and show the world that when it comes to disability sport, accessible environments, transport, hospitality and organization, we can compete just as well as previous host nations.”
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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