Bool, who was left disabled following a bout of polio at 18 months old, was a member of the British wheelchair basketball team for a total of 12 years and participated in the Paralympic Games in 1972, 1976 and 1980, alongside International Paralympic Committee President Sir Philip Craven.

He retired from wheelchair basketball when his children were born but was then approached by the British Sports Association for the Disabled to be a photographer for Paralympic sport.

Having always been interested in photography, Bool decided to work in the field professionally.

The Barcelona 1992 Paralympics were Bool’s first experience of the Games as a photographer.

He had been at every Paralympic Games since then, photographing Paralympic sport at its highest level of competition.

Many of his photographs have showed up in internationally recognised magazines and publications, thus promoting the Paralympic Movement, while Bool had said that working at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games had been one of his greatest experiences.

Following the Games in the Chinese capital, Bool had told Disability Now: "I’d been warned that the Chinese were unhelpful and would look at you and stare.

"I found the opposite.

"With the exception of one or two taxi drivers, all the people running the outfit, the volunteers, the people in the street and people we met who desperately wanted to speak English, everyone was just fantastic."

A ParalympicsGB statement said: "Graham worked tirelessly to capture disability sport at all levels in his photography.

"Over the course of his long career he worked at many disability sport events and attended several Paralympic Games as a photographer, including Beijing in 2008.

"He worked with the BPA often, most recently to photograph Paralympic Potential days.

"We send our condolences to Graham’s family at this time."

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