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 naïve with the erotic, thereby creating a unique dream world.