At the Olympics 2000 in Sydney

Olympic Athletes
JASON BELL

When he was first asked to undertake this huge project the plan was to include a couple of Paralympians, but Bell "was immediately opposed to that idea. I thought it was tokenistic. I was adamant that if we do it we do it properly. So I shot about 20. Their disability wasn't the most interesting thing about them. I wanted to know what they are like as people." British Paralympic equestrian Jo Jackson had taped tennis balls to her goat's horns for fear they would poke out her horse's eyes.

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