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Fashion photographer captures beauty of people with genetic, physical and behavioral differences in documentary

The beauty of those with genetic and behavioral conditions is rarely highlighted, but in the new documentary 'On Beauty,' photography is used to demonstrate that beauty goes well beyond what we see on the cover of magazines.

Rick Guidotti, a fashion photographer from New York City, was used to photographing models who are considered beautiful by society’s standards, but his perspective and priorities changed one day when he saw the beauty in a 12-year-old girl with the genetic condition albinism at a bus stop.

Emmy-nominated filmmaker Joanna Rudnick (In the Family) and Chicago’s Kartemquin Films have created a documentary, On Beauty, that features Guidotti and his work with the mission to redefine what it means to be beautiful.

Guidotti has now photographed many thousands of people, mostly children, with genetic and developmental conditions. The work eventually turned into a not-for-profit organization called Positive Exposure.

It’s very inspiring to see a shift in perspective and using art to remind people that these kids should not be defined by their diseases and that they are beautiful human beings first and foremost.

The documentary premiered at a theater in Los Angeles on Friday, July 24, and it will premiere at Cinema Village in New York City tomorrow, July 31.

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