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Where do you find beauty? Fashion Magazines? Music Videos? One American photographer is finding beauty in unexpected places. And a new documentary about his work might help change the traditional standards of “who” is beautiful.
Rick Guidotti put aside his career as a fashion Photographer to turn his lens to people living with genetic, physical and behavioral differences. He says what changed his perception of beauty was a chance encounter with an albino (白化病) girl.
“I was just tired of people telling me who was beautiful. Every season that face would change but I was always told who was beautiful. As an artist, I don’t see beauty just on covers of magazines. I see it everywhere. So it was my initial intention that opened my eyes a little wider and wider.” Said Guidotti.
Guidotti has created Positive Exposure, a not-for-profit organization that uses photography and video to transform public perceptions and promote a world where differences are celebrated. Guidotti and Positive Exposure are featured in a new documentary called On Beauty.
The cast and crew recently hosted a screening at Georgetown University in Washington. One of the women featured in the film is Jayne Waithera. “I never thought I was beautiful because nobody said that to me, but meeting him was my profound moment. I remember that particular day he took my picture and I felt so good like I felt there’s somebody who, really loves me and sees me for who I am and who sees me more than my condition.” said Waithera.
The documentary is the brainchild of producer Joanna Rudnick. After seeing Rick’s photos, she decided to tell his story. Joanna and Rick are traveling from city to city to promote On Beauty. “As I travel from community to community, I’m taking photographs and I’m empowering individuals with a positive sense of who they are. They’re seeing beauty in their reflection but I’m also empowering their families and they in turn are empowering their communities as well. All is based on the philosophy of change how you see, see how you change.”
24. Why did Rick change his career?
A. Because he couldn’t earn enough money from his former career.
B. Because the beauty on covers of magazines are not beautiful.
C. Because he wanted to create his own company.
D. Because his comprehension of beauty changed owing to an albino girl.
25. What can we know about Positive Exposure?
A. It brings a lot of money for Rick. B. It makes the public more beautiful.
C. It welcomes differences in the world. D. It makes photography more popular.
26. What does the author want to tell us by mentioning Jayne in Paragraph 5?
A. Jayne was beautiful indeed.
B. Photographs gave Jayne a positive sense of who she was.
C. It was unfair that nobody discovered Jayne’s beauty.
D. Jayne’s picture was more beautiful than herself.
27. What do you know about Rick Guidotti based on the passage?
A. He’s a talented photographer with a firmly established reputation.
B. He’s a social worker devoting himself to helping the disadvantaged.
C. He conveys a new concept of beauty by means of a documentary.
D. He promotes people’s taste of beauty through his fashion photographs.
