Coming from a family dedicated to art, Jacques Renoir, who died in 2024, asserted his passion for images and photography very early on.
A graduate of the Louis Lumière Technical School of Photography and Cinematography, he was the cameraman for the most renowned directors (Vadim, Claude Sautet, Granier Deferre, Edouard Molinaro, Lewis Gilbert, John Frankenheimer, Bob Raefelson, etc.)
But his curiosity to discover the world leads him in the wake of Calypso and Cousteau for 7 years to film and direct episodes of the famous TV series. Four nominations and an Emmy Award crown this collaboration. Then he continues with major reports: Bangladesh, North Korea, Lebanon … for TV.
Finally back in France to reconnect as a cameraman with cinema and TV fiction (Navarro).
His passion has always been photography. He experiments and his photographs now tend towards a plastic expression close to painting, but in fact, cinema still influences his research.
He works on different themes: Artists’ Studios, Renoir’s Olive Trees, the Nude, Shadow and Light, Travel Sketches, Relief, Dance and Movement, Landscape Materials… and portfolios with his wife Claude Montserrat-Renoir, philosopher, author and poet.
Author of a fictionalized biography on Auguste Renoir and his relatives Le Tableau Amoureux chez Fayard, adapted for the cinema (Renoir played by Miche Bouquet).
From three portfolios Les Oliviers de Renoir with the poet René Latapie, Petite ontologie du reste and Le Lac with the philosophe Claude Montserrat.
Numerous exhibitions mark his career as a photographer with the support of Galleries such as Bogena in Vence or the Galerie Capazza Paris / Nançay
