Name: 【TED】Rick Guidotti: From stigma to supermodel (Rick Guidotti: From stigma to supermodel)
Uploaded: 2017-03-29T04:37:10.000Z
Duration: 18 min 9 s
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Future simple

I'll tell you a little bit about my story and who I am.

I'm a fashion photographer based in New York City.

I've worked for lots  of different magazines in New York,

I've worked for Elle and for Marie Claire,

and I got to work  with some really beautiful people.

but I also lived in Milan for about eight years,

and worked for the house  of Yves St. Laurent.

I've worked for lots  of different magazines,

But I was always told, every single day, who was beautiful.

within certain parameters  of the beauty standard.

I was told, "This is the most  amazing model of the moment,

And then the next season, it would change again,

and I'd have to shift my ideas of beauty,

and it was kind of really crazy, because I'm an artist.

I didn't see beauty  just on a magazine cover.

I did a shoot with, of  course, Cindy, for Revlon,

someone's always telling me  who's beautiful.

I left my studio one  afternoon in New York,

and I saw, waiting for a bus  at the corner of Park and 20th,

She had long, white, beautiful hair, and pale, pale skin.

She had a genetic condition  called albinism.

I didn't know much about it,  but she was stunning,

and I'd never met  a model like this before.

"I have to take your photograph,  you're amazing!"

And the bus came, she got on,  and then she took off,

and I was really glad because she was 12,

and I'd be in prison at the moment. (Laughter)

But really, it was  extraordinary to see this kid.

So I continued right down to Union Square,

and started pulling any books, or any information I could

I found images of people  sitting in hospital beds, looking sad,

looking downtrodden,  just images of despair.

I found images  of a bright red eye, the albino eye.

I'm thinking,  this kid had beautiful blue eyes,

And then I started seeing  images from Africa,

where kids were surrounded by tribes  pointing spears at them

or they're just in beds,  and images of illness,

going through those same medical textbooks,

and started finding  these typical images

of kids and adults in their underwear,  against walls in doctor's offices,

with the black bar across their eyes  saying "disease."

And then I started going into it further,

and all these different medical textbooks,

and everything was so sad,  and so negative.

I then started finding images  of the albino freak family in the circus,

and then of course,  all the movie references,

from "Powder," who had albinism because his mother was struck by lightning,

to "The Princess Bride" and  to "The Matrix Reloaded,"

there were the ghost-like twins  that came in and wreaked havoc,

and destroyed things and then disappeared.

there was like the evil albino  driving around Paris at night,

that people with albinism  have a visual impairment.

There's always vision,  but they're considered legally blind.

So they certainly wouldn't be driving  around Paris at night

shooting at anybody and expect to hit anything.

Now, NOAH is the National Organization  for Albinism and Hypopigmentation.

It's a support group for people  living with this condition,

And I'm like, "Hey, I'm a  fashion photographer.

Let's show the world  the beauty of albinism!"

And I'm pretty persistent. I'm  like, "Won't you talk to me?"

that every time there  was a magazine article

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【TED】Rick Guidotti: From stigma to supermodel (Rick Guidotti: From stigma to supermodel)

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