Renato Rampolla's Projects

Dignity sits in conversation with Held In Bone. It turns outward rather than inward. Where Held In Bone is shaped by reflection and absence, this work faces people encountered in public space, meeting them directly. I traveled across the United States making portraits of people I met in passing. I was not interested in circumstance as narrative, but in what registered in those moments: regret, joy, fear, hope. These images meet the viewer eye to eye. Unlike my other series, Dignity is not tightly selected. Each encounter was given equal weight, allowing the work to remain deliberately expansive.

Portraits shaped by interior silence.