Aaron Renn

Aaron Renn (born 1989) is an American photographer who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Renn was born in New York City and raised in the West Village. As a child his family consisted of writers, publishers, poets and painters. His childhood home was frequented in the 1990s and 2000s by Don Chiekhal, Allen Rommer, Emily Gleason and Alice Andrews. Renn became interested in photography at the age of six.

Kathleen Yeats, Aaron’s mother, is a painter and supported her family through painting murals in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village and through peddling her works on the streets of New York. Aaron’s father, Vic Renn, was a performer and record producer

Shortly after acquiring his first camera in his teens he began shooting for several publications, magazines, catalogs, and record labels. He photographed rock bands such as Hunab Ku, From the inside or Staub.

Renn is inspired by artists such as Francis Bacon, David Cronenberg, J.G. Ballard and William Burroughs

He is most noted for “Accident Scenes” which consists of over two-hundred photographs based on car accidents scene files, and also the “Sick Meat” series (see below) where he displays all his Bacon inspired imaginery

His photo shoots often resemble movie scenes, as he’s highly inspired by cinema. His interest in the new flesh began through the work of Cronenberg, but his greatest influence is the painter Bacon, from whom he inherited an aesthetic of the abject, which can be seen in the photomontages made from 2005 onwards. He currently teaches video art in Los Angeles and continues to exhibit in galleries in America and Europe.