These photographs were taken for the 2015 Special Olympics World Games organization. The 2015 Special Olympics World Games included 7,000 athletes and 3,000 coaches representing 177 countries, along with 30,000 volunteers and an estimated 500,000 spectators. The 2015 Special Olympics World Games was the largest sports and humanitarian event anywhere in the world in 2015 and the single biggest event in Los Angeles since the 1984 Olympic Games.