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Étienne Renzo - Lives and works in the South of France

Born in Marseille, Etienne Renzo has been a photographer since the mid-1970s.

He currently lives and works in the Buech Valley in the Hautes Alpes. He has worked in event photography, corporate photography and aerial photography. He has also been a farmer, pilot, mechanic, business manager, foundry worker and local elected representative.

He began teaching himself photography at the age of 14 with his parents' Kodak Retina camera. Later, after completing his training in metallurgy, he set himself up as a professional industrial and advertising photographer in 1975.

As a teenager, he began by photographing scenes from his everyday life. These scenes brought him closer to intimacy, a subject in itself, which he found essential and characteristic of his work.

His experiences in various places and professions, multimedia, live performance and dance, agriculture and livestock farming, mountains and forests, aviation, and arthouse cinema have shaped his vision and his passion for images.
Once again a professional "author photographer" since 1999, this photography is a necessity that has taken shape in portraiture, a taste for skin and bodies in the midst of nature, voluptuousness. But also trees, landscapes, the other and elsewhere. Sometimes even mystery.

Recent activities

Solo exhibitions:
2024: "Return from China, 1975," Arles, 22 April 2024 to 10 April 2025.
2023: "Ordinary Angels," Arles, Studio 26, 11–30 July
2022: "Nature & Guardians," La Cure d'Upaix, Hautes Alpes
2021: "Nature & Angels," Serres, Aerodrome, Hautes Alpes Group

exhibitions:
2025: Visionary Dess(t)ins, Polaris Contemporary Art Centre, Istres, 5 September – 15 November 2025
2023: "Arbuscules," Tree Climbing Festival, Aspremont, H.A.

Publications:
2023: Publication of the book NUA on an encounter with an artist from the movement for the creation of a show in nature
2016 to 2022: Photographs & videos for the "Pianos du Lac" show tours

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