Eric Renard
Walking in LA (Series)
DESCRIPTION
In 1982, the song “Walking in LA” by the new wave band Missing Persons poked fun at Los Angeles for our dependence on cars, with the refrain — “Nobody walks in LA”. In 2023, we walk, we strut and we meander.
Los Angeles has a unique architecture all its own, some of it loved, some of it hated and some of it unnoticed. Usually it takes some walking, which I love to do, and almost it always takes some waiting for the right subject to walk by and add some life and scale to my images.
AUTHOR
Eric M Renard (www.ericrenardphotography.com) is a Los Angeles based fine art photographer and one of California's leading contemporary photographers. His passion for photography was ignited at Tufts University in Boston, where he studied photography under Siegfried Halus. After graduating, Eric returned to San Francisco and worked as an architectural real estate photographer before moving to Los Angeles, where he works as an Art Director for advertising.
Eric Renard's recent exhibitions "Slice of Light", "Nobody Walks in L.A.", "Soul of a City" and "Urbanity in Black and White" focused on high contrast, urban cityscapes, creating an eerie feeling of tranquility. The landscape is the hero in these images, with the people subject to the power of their surroundings.
Eric's photography has found its way into art galleries in London, Barcelona, Budapest, Athens, Mexico, Brazil, New York, Texas, Oregon, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Connecticut and across California. His photography has received numerous Best of Show awards and has been published in both books and photography magazines, including the cover of Black & White magazine.
He is a managing director of The Artists Gallery in Los Angeles and on the Board of the California Art League and San Fernando Valley Arts and
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