Lifelong Los Angeleno, Rick Castro is a photographer, writer and filmmaker.
Castro has created photographic portraits of Gore Vidal, Kenneth Anger, and the 14th Dalai Lama (sipping tea). He’s created fashion editorials for Christian Dior Homme, Cartier, Bottega Veneta and Rick Owens. Castro’s photographic slide presentation and lecture was featured in Queering the Lens, Getty Center, June 2023. His photography & writings were featured in Copy Machine Manifesto: Artists Who Make Zines, Brooklyn Museum, NY, 15, November thru 31, March, 2024 and Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC, 11, May through 22, September, 2024.
His first solo exhibition in Mexico entitled “Las Trece Vidas de Rick Castro,” took place at Gallery HGZ, Queretaro, MX, 8th, August, 20024. Bizart is Rick’s first exhibition in Switzerland.
Rick Castro S/M Blvd: Street Hustlers Photographs and Remembrances- 1986-1999, (2023, All Night Menu) a slide show and lecture presented at the Los Angeles Central Library, 21, February, Los Angeles Times Book Festival, USC, 27, April, Skylight BookShop, Los Feliz Village, 19, July, Museo de Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico, 8/10/24, Unnamable BookShop, Brooklyn, and DreamBrothers at Kasari, Hudson, NY . The tour then went to East End Bookstore, Provincetown, MA and The Leather Archives & Museum, Chicago, Il, during September, 2024.
His other books include 13 Years of Bondage: The Photography of Rick Castro, (2004, Fluxion Editions), and CASTRO, (1990, published by Durk Dehner, DPR Press).
Rick Castro co-directed and wrote Hustler White, (1996) with Bruce LaBruce, and directed Plushies & Furries, (2001) for MTV and Channel 4, UK.
Columbarium Continuum by Rick Castro, is his unique photographic museum at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, open to the public 9am-4pm daily.

