Photographer Richard Renaldi worked on a project called "Touching Strangers" in 2007. This project portrayed different people in potentially intimate poses with a complete stranger. His project has gained so much popularity that people all over the country are now adding their own pictures to his collection over social media. Often people portrayed in his photos are pushed past their comfort zones and into poses they reserve only for their friends and loved ones.
In these photos we hoped to capture a little of the feeling of his photos as students attempt to recreate some of his works of art while expressing themselves in the different photographs.
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