BTS: Richard Renaldi Introduces & Poses Complete Strangers on the Streets of NYC - Polidicks

[img]http://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2013/07/120.jpg[/img] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KMv23wonQs[/media] [quote] Photographer Richard Renaldi‘s 6-year-long project Touching Strangers has been an incredible success. From viral Internet fame to a full-fledged photo book that exceeded its Kickstarter goal eight times over, there’s something profoundly moving about complete strangers posed together, sometimes quite intimately, on the streets of NYC. In the video above we get a behind the scenes look at how Renaldi does what he does, and how his subjects, sometimes reticent at first, often wind up feeling at ease and connected to this perfect stranger they didn’t know existed 10 minutes ago. The behind-the-scenes video was put together a couple of months ago by CBS News for their segment “OnTheRoad with Steve Hartman,” and it follows Renaldi around as he makes the magic happen. Similar to the recent Humans of New York BTS video we shared, getting to walk around and watch Renaldi at work is both educational and inspirational. In some ways his job is harder than HONY’s Brandon Stanton: he not only has to approach complete strangers and ask to take their picture… he has to ask them to intimately pose with yet another complete stranger in the process. It takes Renaldi some 10 minutes to get the photo he’s looking for with his massive 8×10 large format camera, and in that time some strangers remain strangers — meaning they never warm up to each other. But more surprising is the fact that many of the pairs or groups wind up feeling closer to one another.[/quote] [url]http://petapixel.com/2013/10/20/bts-richard-renaldi-introduces-poses-complete-strangers-streets-nyc/[/url] Now that's quite something for art.

Hah, i'd love to see him try that in northern Europe :v:

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;42848464]Hah, i'd love to see him try that in northern Europe :v:[/QUOTE] with any luck he could get two norwegians to stand within 20 feet of each other silently facing in opposite directions

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;42848464]Hah, i'd love to see him try that in northern Europe :v:[/QUOTE] Perhaps the British could be persuaded to awkwardly make eye contact while repressing a grimace for a second or two.

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;42848464]Hah, i'd love to see him try that in northern Europe :v:[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=fishyfish777;42848640]with any luck he could get two norwegians to stand within 20 feet of each other silently facing in opposite directions[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Dr. Ethan Asia;42848663]Perhaps the British could be persuaded to awkwardly make eye contact while repressing a grimace for a second or two.[/QUOTE] This is probably the first time I've seen "Only In America..." to mean somewhat of a good thing on this Forum. [editline]13th November 2013[/editline] [t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7333627/ShareX/2013-11/2013-11-13_05-59-59.jpg[/t] [url]http://www.renaldi.com/#num=content-204&id=album-11[/url] This one is probably my favorite.

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;42848670] [t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7333627/ShareX/2013-11/2013-11-13_05-59-59.jpg[/t] [URL]http://www.renaldi.com/#num=content-204&id=album-11[/URL] This one is probably my favorite.[/QUOTE] You know, for some reason they actually look kinda cute together. :smile:

[QUOTE=Dr. Ethan Asia;42848663]Perhaps the British could be persuaded to awkwardly make eye contact while repressing a grimace for a second or two.[/QUOTE] but i thought the stereotype of nyc is that everyone rushes around no one makes eye contact and to try and initiate conversation with anyone on public transport is like the biggest faux pas imaginable? where-as the northern-england stereotype is that everyone makes small-talk with each other and shares and gets along i guess both are bullshit

[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;42848743]but i thought the stereotype of nyc is that everyone rushes around no one makes eye contact and to try and initiate conversation with anyone on public transport is like the biggest faux pas imaginable? where-as the northern-england stereotype is that everyone makes small-talk with each other and shares and gets along i guess both are bullshit[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-t2bmTV-WhU0/Ue9t_y0q_yI/AAAAAAAAWdU/Jpy2ZDEZWrI/s400/please+respect+urban+solitude+dr+heckle+funny+wtf+signs.jpg[/IMG]