365 Awesome! » disabled models http://www.365awesome.com awesome - all year long Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:04:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 VisABLE http://www.365awesome.com/2010/03/visable/ http://www.365awesome.com/2010/03/visable/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:00:50 +0000 michele http://www.365awesome.com/?p=306

Shannon Murray, photo by Richard Cannon

According to their website, VisABLE is the UK’s first professional agency representing only actors and models with disabilities. I’m wondering if they’re the first in the UK or the first in the world.  Either way, I think it’s pretty darn awesome.

Pictured here is one of their top models, Shannon Murray, who has been confined to a wheelchair since she was 14.  In 1994 Shannon won the first modeling competition for disabled women. It was organized by Louise Dyson, founder of VisABLE Models.

Awesome.

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