November 5, 2024
Photographer Unites Strangers Across America for Intimate Portraits [Interview]
Seventeen years ago, photographer Richard Renaldi took a gamble. What would it look like if he brought two strangers spontaneously together and asked to take their portrait? And not just any portrait at that. These portraits were intimate, intended to unite two worlds, if even for an instant. To answer this question, Renaldi crisscrossed the United States and, starting in 2007, began asking people to pose for a series he would call Touching Strangers.
