Patrizio di renzo

PHOTOGRAPHER & Director

PHOTOGRAPHER & Director

BIOGRAPHY

The creative career of the Swiss photographer and filmmaker Patrizio Di Renzo began at the age of 16 with his training as an industrial photographer. After graduating, he spent years as assistant in Paris and as a freelance photographer in Milan. In the early 1990s he left Italy and gained his first experience in fashion photography. He worked i.a. two years in Istanbul for fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Elle. After returning to Switzerland in 2001, he worked as an advertising and fashion photographer. A few years later, the fashion designer Tsumori Chisato became aware of Di Renzo`s work and let him realize a global campaign and her whole store concept.
At the same time Di Renzo, who had meanwhile moved to New York/Los Angeles, began working on his first illustrated book, Portraits of Illusions. The illustrated book tells short photographic stories captured in Ireland, New York and the Seychelles. The images deliberately move away from reality. Di Renzo's motto: Move away from Realism.
In 2005 Di Renzo returned to Switzerland, opened his studio in Baar, debuted 5 years later as a music video producer for the Italian singer Enzo Fertitta and directed his first video installation for Issey Miyake.
The distance to the real world is characteristic of Di Renzo's work. You can definitely see him as a director who combines the magical with the sensual, the romantic with the lascivious, the naĂŻve with the erotic, thereby creating a unique dream world.

Way of working

Patrizio's language is images. Nothing is as it first appears. Everything is an illusion, an invitation to escape from the everyday, from the ordinary, to be transported into a room full of dreams - a room where the audience becomes a part of the dream. Patrizio discovers the art of photography to create illusions. Like the dreams that inspire him with their changing scenarios, his paintings show a passion for stylistic dynamism that moves without borders between disciplines, ideas and images. In his photographs, Di Renzo creates images that entice with lyrical beauty, sophisticated yet provocative. Embedded in a contemporary fashion aesthetic, touched by surrealism, Di Renzo's images are overlaid with depths, reflections and references visible to those who know how to look, how to see. Patrizio Di Renzo calls these illusory layers "inner truths" and says that all of his paintings are in some way self-portraits.

Clients

Christ Jewellery, Diama, Jetset, Bentley, Lalique, Breitling, Rosso Antico, SprĂĽngli, Luisa Cerano, De Sede etc.

Celebrities

Mads Mikkelsen, Alyssa Miller, Maelie Daure, Chloe Sevigny, James Goldstein, Louise Monot, Naomi Campbell, Natalia Vodianova, Rick Genest, Devon Aoki, Dean&Dan (Dsquared).  etc.