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Richard Renaldi
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Richard Renaldi

On graduating from New York University in 1990, Renaldi worked as a researcher and editor at Magnum Photos and Impact Visuals. At this time, he started the first of many long-term projects, a series of street portraits on Madison Avenue. They were included in STRANGERS: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video at the International Center of Photography, New York (2003).

Renaldi’s work has also been shown at the George Eastman Museum in New York and the Museum of the City of New York.

Renaldi is the author of five books, including a visual autobiography, I Want Your Love (Super Labo, 2018). The others are Richard Renaldi: Figure and Ground (Aperture, 2006), Fall River Boys (Charles Lane Press, 2009), Touching Strangers (Aperture, 2014), and Manhattan Sunday (Aperture, 2016). His project Billions Served was featured in The New Yorker and the Financial Times.

He has served as an adjunct faculty member at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, and at Harvard University. In 2019, he was the Henry Wolf Chair in Photography at the Cooper Union, New York. In 2015, he received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

In 2008, Renaldi founded Charles Lane Press, dedicated to publishing lesser-known or emerging photographers and overlooked projects.

Since 2004, he has been involved with Visual AIDS as an archive member, fundraiser, and supporter. In 2011, he received the Bill Olander Award, honouring his commitment to art activism, AIDS advocacy, HIV prevention, education, and support of other artists with HIV/AIDS.