While playing baseball at the age of 21, an ill-advised slide into third base cost Loren Worthington the use of his limbs. 30 years later, he's now a talented sports photographer whose work earned him a job capturing adaptive sports at the Rio Paralympics.
João Maia is one of the many photographers covering the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. There's something that sets him apart from most of the others, though: he lost his sight over a decade ago.
Vogue Brazil is being criticized for a recent photo shoot promoting the Paralympics. Instead of shooting portraits of actual athletes competing in the games, the magazine decided to made portraits of able-bodied models and give them faked limb amputations using Photoshop.
Capturing photos of our Olympic and Paralympic athletes is an important job that no photographer takes lightly — after …