“Positive Exposure, The Spirit of Difference”
September 1, 2008 – October 31, 2008
www.positiveexposure.org

Rick Guidotti 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.

In 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 elementary and secondary schools worldwide. The lecture series has expanded to include a diversity workshop and was introduced at MTV headquarters.

Currently, Rick is engaged in an ongoing developmental collaboration with leading US medical schools and genetics counseling programs to create and beta-test “Positive Ties”, a web-based, image/information platform created by and for medical students and persons living with genetic difference.

This year, in partnership with a national consortium of science and children’s museums, Rick has also begun development of the “Mirror of Difference”, an interactive media exhibit on human genetic diversity for science and children’s museums. This exhibit will be linked in real time to the “Positive Ties” web platform.

Rick is based in New York City.