Off-screen punk

Étienne Renzo enjoys taking portraits of punks. He began long before festive gatherings such as the "grosse entube", which he hosted at his aerodrome. Touched by the commitment, critical derision, but also by the creativity and humanity of the neo-keupons, he set out to meet them in their unlikely living spaces. His idea was to conduct "photographic interviews", which would become a real artistic project.

Reading the unseen

Sensitive to the call of the forest, Etienne Renzo has always photographed trees and devotes part of his photographic work to them, creating images and situations that tell a new story about our relationship with them. This necessarily involves connecting with the different levels of reality in our relationship with trees. One of these is the magic of trees, with their very special energy, which shines through in Etienne Renzo's photography.

Weddings

This series, known as "Weddings", is doubly unique and singular in Etienne Renzo's career, with photographs that are both abstract and semi-accidental. It is the antithesis of posed images processed in a laboratory. Here, the photography is the result of a process linked to the deterioration of Ektachrome silver-based slides of wedding ceremonies taken in the 1970s and 1980s. These are strange images, both resurrected and produced by chance through an astonishing alchemy of shapes and colours.