Richard Renaldi: Touching Strangers

About Richard Renaldi

Richard Renaldi graduated from New York University with a BFA in photography in 1990. Renaldi is represented by Benrubi Gallery New York and Robert Morat Galerie Berlin. Other books by Renaldi include Manhattan Sunday (Aperture 2016) Fall River Boys (2009) and Figure and Ground (Aperture 2006). In 2015 he was named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in Photography. Richard Renaldi graduated from New York University with a BFA in photography in 1990. Renaldi is represented by Benrubi Gallery New York and Robert Morat Galerie Berlin. Other books by Renaldi include Manhattan Sunday (Aperture 2016) Fall River Boys (2009) and Figure and Ground (Aperture 2006). In 2015 he was named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in Photography. Teju Cole was born in the United States to Nigerian parents and raised in Nigeria. He is the author of Known and Strange Things Every Day is for the Thief and Open City which won the PEN/Hemingway Award; the New York City Book Award for Fiction; the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and the Internationaler Literaturpreis from the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin. He is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College and photography critic of the New York Times Magazine. His prose and photography are combined in his most recent book Blind Spot.