Once upon a photography seminar in Bozeman, Mont., my professors challenged us to make work like Richard Renaldi. Not in his style, or modeled after him, per se, but work that challenged the viewer.

For the last seven years, photographer Richard Renaldi has gone to various parts of America to take portraits of strangers that make them look like friends, family members, or even lovers. The point ...

In any crowded urban environment, you’re bound to spend a lot of time with strangers. On subway platforms. In line at the bank. Walking down the street. We’re surrounded by people and yet there are so ...

Photographer Richard Renaldi says he isn’t the type of artist who likes to wait until a project is finished before sharing it. In 2010, he presented some of the first images of his now widely seen ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

If you’re being approached by a photographer with a large, antique-looking camera, who is asking you to pose with a stranger, it’s probably Richard Renaldi. The photographer traveled around the ...

Walking the streets of New York City, photographer Richard Renaldi felt fascinated by large groups of strangers and how they seemed to relate and interact with one another. In his ongoing series, ...

Everyone’s a critic, they say. But most people aren’t filing on Tuesdays. For the writers pictured here, engaging with culture isn’t a hobby or a sideline or a way of sounding off. It’s a vocation, in ...