Portraits

Etienne Renzo undeniably has talent as a portrait photographer. First and foremost, he says he loves people. Some people repay him in kind through his images. What he seeks in a portrait is aura. He can easily capture this in some subjects, while in others it is impossible to convey. You can see and feel it.

Whether taken on their own or placed in a situation, Etienne Renzo's particularly successful portraits have something magnetic about them. They touch on a dimension that goes beyond the frame of the image and photography. It is as if, through them, he refers us back to the generic pictorial dimension of art. To the point of revealing the ineffable nature of being and life through the image. Etienne Renzo's portraits are precious because they reveal a little-discussed dimension of photography, namely its energetic and invisible dimension, which is also found in certain paintings. This is particularly true of the astonishing series of ordinary angels, some of whom took flight from his aerodrome.

Etienne Renzo says of them: "Photographing angels is about rediscovering as much as possible the magic of everyday life, the wonder of life in peace, so that it does not fall into oblivion. In this way, my photographs fulfil the task of angels. Revealing these images is my profane and imperfect solution to accomplishing a traditionally divine task."