Richard Renaldi is an American portrait photographer. His four main books each contain portraits of people Renaldi met in public, and some landscapes, made over numerous years with an 8×10 large format view camera. Those books are: Figure and Ground —various people throughout the USA; Fall River Boys —young men growing up in the post-industrial city of Fall River, Massachusetts; Touching Strangers —strangers posed by Renaldi physically touching in some way, made all over the USA; and Manhattan Sunday —LGBT people photographed between midnight and 10 am on Sundays mainly on the streets of Manhattan having left nightclubs.
Touching Strangers had a solo exhibition at Aperture Foundation, and Manhattan Sunday, for which Renaldi received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015, had a solo show at George Eastman Museum.