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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.13,0:00:02.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Wind Blows]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.86,0:00:08.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Steve Hartman: 45 year old Richard Renaldi is looking for someone, two someones, actually.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.28,0:00:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two total strangers who are meant to be together.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.28,0:00:12.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Renaldi: This is Dominic, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.65,0:00:14.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hartman: If only for a moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.32,0:00:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Renaldi: Okay, so you guys are gonna be a- a couple.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.62,0:00:20.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Renaldi (in interview): They're not exactly sure what they've just signed up for-
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.59,0:00:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Renaldi (on street): Actually
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.76,0:00:23.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Renaldi (in interview): And people are a little nervous at first.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.98,0:00:26.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Renaldi (on street): Okay, I just need you a little closer like-okay, good.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.72,0:00:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: Richard is a New York photographer, working on a series of portraits.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.37,0:00:31.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Renaldi: Okay, good.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.66,0:00:33.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hartman: For each shot, he grabs strangers off the street.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.67,0:00:39.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like Jenny Wood, an airline employee from Virginia, and Dominic Tucker, a college student from Brooklyn.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.51,0:00:42.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And poses them - like adoring family.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.37,0:00:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Renaldi (on street): Okay um, beautiful. 1,2, and 3.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.04,0:00:46.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Camera snaps
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.51,0:00:49.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hartman: Richard calls the project 'Touching Strangers.'
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.09,0:00:53.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He started shooting it 6 years ago, and now has hundreds of portraits of these unlikely intimates.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.74,0:00:57.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of the photos- you'd never know, they'd never met.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.93,0:01:03.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While other capture, quite well, the inherrent awkwardness of cudding some random dude.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.28,0:01:05.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Young women (in unison): Hey there, nice to meet you.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.03,0:01:10.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hartman: Even when the subjects seem eager, their body language often concedes a certain hesitance,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.14,0:01:15.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At least at first. Ten minutes later, though,\Nit's like Thanksgiving at Aunt Margaret's.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.53,0:01:17.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's the really weird thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.48,0:01:19.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Renaldi (on street): Oh that's great!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.18,0:01:25.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hartman: Yes, Richard puts the people in these poses, \Nbut the sentiment that seems to shine through, is real.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.03,0:01:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At least, so say the subjects.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.02,0:01:28.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Renaldi (on street): Okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.30,0:01:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Older woman: It was sort of awkward but then sort of not.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.16,0:01:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Young women: Thank You! \NRenaldi: You guys did so good.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.28,0:01:34.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Older woman: We are probably missing so much about the people all around us.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.95,0:01:36.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Renaldi (on street): This is Reiko.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.33,0:01:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hartman: At first, Brian Snedon, a poetry teacher, \Nsaw no rhyme or reason for posing
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.90,0:01:44.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with 95 year-old retired fashion designer Reiko Urman.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.44,0:01:47.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Renaldi (on street): Can you just come in a little more - yeah, okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.78,0:01:50.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hartman: But eventually he too felt a change.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.37,0:01:52.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brian: I felt like I cared for her.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.37,0:01:53.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hartman: Cared for her?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.78,0:01:55.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brian: Yeah. I felt like it brought down a lot of barriers.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.78,0:01:57.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hartman: Pretty much everyone shared that same sentiment.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.59,0:01:59.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Young man: It was a good feeling. Laughs shyly
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.59,0:02:01.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Young woman: It was nice to feel that comfort.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.22,0:02:05.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Renaldi (in interview): Everyone seems to have come away with kind of a good feeling.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.33,0:02:08.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's kind of lovely. It's lovely!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.90,0:02:11.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hartman: Most photographers capture life as it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.74,0:02:17.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in these strangers, Richard Renaldi has captured something much more ethereal and elusive.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.78,0:02:20.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He shows us humanity- as it could be.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.81,0:02:23.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As most of us wish it would be.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.68,0:02:29.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, as it was. \NAt least for this one fleeting moment in time.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.53,0:02:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Steve Hartman, on the road, in New York.