Jacques Renoir affirms very early his passion for the image and the photography. Graduate of the Technical School of Photography and Cinematography Louis Lumière, he is the assistant of the most famous directors and directors (Vadim, Claude Sautet, Granier Deferre, Lewis Gilbert, John Frankenheimer ..) but his curiosity to discovering the world takes him in the wake of the Calypso and Cousteau for 7 years to film and realize the episodes of the famous TV series. Four nominations and one Emmy award crown this collaboration. Then he goes on with great reports: Bengladesh, North Korea, Lebanon .. for TV. Finally return to France to reconnect with cinema and TV drama (Navarro ...) Author of a fictionalized biography about Renoir and his loved ones "Fayard's painting" at Fayard adapted to the cinema "Renoir" with Michel Bouquet in the role of auguste Renoir. His passion remains, always, photography. The clichés seized during these journeys are reborn by the magic of digital. He experimented and his photographs "Lacerated posters" tend towards a plastic expression close to the painting but still he puts in co-incidence the forms and colors in a series of photos in APS format After this retrospective at the Museum of Photography in Mougins, then a thematic exhibition "Footprints" at the chapel of the white penitents of Vence. He exhibited in Paris at the gallery Bernheim-Jeune then rue de Seine at the gallery "At the bottom of the court-" a series large formats "Collisions". Since then, he has been working on different themes: artists' workshops, Renoir's olive trees, the nude, the shadow and the light, travel sketches, the relief, the dance and the movement, materials with landscapes and since ..
—thierry genovese