Fashion photographer focuses on the beauty in being different

Source: Aurora Sentinel

About 14 years ago, fashion photographer Rick Guidotti spotted a young girl with milky-white flesh waiting for a bus near Gramercy Park in New York City.

The girl’s skin and hair were virtually void of pigment, and she was starkly different from women like Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer — super models Guidotti photographed regularly, who graced the covers of magazines worldwide.

Still, Guidotti was struck by the girl’s beauty.

“As a fashion photographer I was always told who was beautiful, and it would change from season to season,” Guidotti said. “But as an artist, I would also see beauty not only on a magazine cover but also out of those parameters.”

Guidotti spent two decades photographing for high-fashion magazines like Elle and Harper’s Bazaar in trendy cities like Milan, London, Paris and New York City.

But he left his fashion photography career in 1997 to begin capturing a different kind of beauty, the kind he saw in people with genetic disorders.

A collection of his photographs is being displayed at a gallery in the Santa Fe Arts District in Denver through Dec. 16, and he’ll be the keynote speaker at the Colorado BioScience Association Annual Awards Dinner in Denver on Dec. 8.

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