It can be difficult to photograph people we don’t know and to overcome the fear and uncertainty that comes with approaching and photographing strangers. Yet when we’re given a chance to spend a little bit of time with someone, we can honor them by making portraits that feel intimate and revealing — portraits that can point to a person’s sensibility, their circumstances, and also the time and place in which they live. We’ll look at photographers who have made immense and lasting bodies of work from encounters with strangers, such as Judith Joy Ross, Joel Sternfeld, Baldwin Lee, Milton Rogovin, among others.