Richard Renaldi

Touching Strangers (Aperture, 2014):
Renaldi pairs disparate people in terms of culture, religion, and dress and implores them to embrace one another. We see how a forced interaction can break down boundaries created by stereotypes and subcultures. (Debbie Grossman, American Photo)
What makes Renaldi's photographs thrilling is that, even knowing his strategy, the viewer can't help fabricating a story about the subjects' relationship. We weave narratives around them who they are, the unlikely tenderness that might exist between strangers. (Anna Altman, New York Times Book Review)
The collection has a captivating strangeness to it that reveals the sensitivity we have about each other's skin. (Allison Meier, Hyperallergic)
Most photographers capture life as it is, but in these strangers, Richard Renaldi has captured something much more ethereal and elusive. He shows us humanity as it could be as most of us wish it would be and as it was, at least for those one fleeting moments in time. (Steve Hartman, CBS News)
Renaldi's unusual photographic formula reveals the unlikely ways the body and the heart can influence each other. (Priscilla Frank, Huffington Post)
The photographer Richard Renaldi is a matchmaker for tense times. (John Leland, New York Times Lens Blog)
Often posing his subjects in a way one might for family or couple photos, Renaldi attempts to capture an implied narrative, bringing a new complexity to portrait-making and visual storytelling. (Erik Tanner, TIME Lightbox)"
"Touching Strangers" (Aperture, 2014):

Renaldi pairs disparate people in terms of culture, religion, and dress and implores them to embrace one another. We see how a forced interaction can break down boundaries created by stereotypes and subcultures. (Debbie Grossman, "American Photo")

What makes Renaldi's photographs thrilling is that, even knowing his strategy, the viewer can't help fabricating a story about the subjects' relationship. We weave narratives around them who they are, the unlikely tenderness that might exist between strangers. (Anna Altman, "New York Times Book Review")

The collection has a captivating strangeness to it that reveals the sensitivity we have about each other's skin. (Allison Meier, Hyperallergic)

Most photographers capture life as it is, but in these strangers, Richard Renaldi has captured something much more ethereal and elusive. He shows us humanity as it could be as most of us wish it would be and as it was, at least for those one fleeting moments in time. (Steve Hartman, CBS News)

Renaldi's unusual photographic formula reveals the unlikely ways the body and the heart can influence each other. (Priscilla Frank, "Huffington Post")

The photographer Richard Renaldi is a matchmaker for tense times. (John Leland, "New York Times "Lens Blog)

Often posing his subjects in a way one might for family or couple photos, Renaldi attempts to capture an implied narrative, bringing a new complexity to portrait-making and visual storytelling. (Erik Tanner, TIME Lightbox) "