Rick Guidotti

Photographer/Foundation Director

RICK GUIDOTTI Director of POSITIVE EXPOSURE , completed his education in photography and filmmaking at New York's School of Visual Arts and established a studio in Manhattan, specializing in portraiture and fashion for 15 years. During that period he also worked in Milan, Paris and London for clients such as Yves Saint Laurent, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, Revlon, L'Oreal and Life Magazine.  

n 1998, Rick founded Positive Exposure, a non profit organization, that challenges stigma associated with difference by pioneering a new vision of the beauty and richness of genetic diversity. Rick's photo essay “Redefining Beauty” in Life Magazine won the Genetic Alliance's “Art of Reporting” award.

The body of work entitled “Positive Exposure, The Spirit of Difference” premiered at the People's Genome Celebration, June 2001, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in DC. and continues to exhibit in galleries, museums and public arenas internationally.  

In addition to the exhibition, Rick has developed a lecture series targeting medical schools, nursing and genetic counseling programs as well as universities, elementary and secondary schools worldwide. The lecture series has recently expanded to include a diversity workshop and was introduced at MTV headquarters. Rick is based in New York City.

www.PositiveExposure.org