Renee Lynn is an American photographer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She completed her studies in commercial photography at U.C. Berkeley and began her career as a photojournalist before she found her passion as a stock photographer specializing in nature and animal imagery. During this time, Renee was represented by Getty and Corbis Images. Her animal imagery was used in advertising by Apple, Jaguar and Discovery Channel and she received the Addy Award for a DDB VW ad campaign. Her recent work with artistic photographic processes invites viewers to experience photography in unexpected ways. This approach earned her three category wins in the 22nd Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Abstract, Landscape and Cell phone photography and additionally the Florida Museum of Photographic Art recognized her unique landscape work.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Riverbank, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
Group Exhibitions
2025 Dog & Pony Show, Edition One Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2025 Street Photography First Place, NYC4PA Debra Klomp Ching, Juror, NYC
2025 Barcelona Foto Biennale, April 2025 Exhibition
2025 Expressionism, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX2025 Barcelona Foto Biennale, April 2025 Exhibition
2024 Florida Museum of Photographic Art, Tampa Int. Airport, Florida
2024 -scapes, PH21 Gallery, Valid World Hall, Barcelona, Italy
2024 Abstract, Landscape and Cell Phone Winner, FotoNostrum, Barcelona
2024 Axis Mundi: The Sacred Center, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
2024 Cinematic, The Curated Fridge, Panopticon Gallery Boston, MA
2024 Colors of the Commonplace, NYC4PA Debra Klomp Ching, Juror, NYC
2024 Sanctuary, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
2024 Color 2024, F-stop Magazine
2023 Imagined, Juror’s Award by Susan Burnstine, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
2023 Still, Art-Fluent, Online exhibition
2023 The Abstract Image, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2023 Quiet Landscape, Juror Wendy Schneider, Photo Place, Middlebury, VE
2021 Abstract, NYC4PA, Juror Debra Klomp Ching, NYC
2021 LensCulture Editors Choice, Home ’21
2021 Bloom, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
2021 Out There, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
Corporate Placement
2025 Bank of America Financial Center, New York, NY 9 ft. x 12 ft. mural
Awards
2025 Street Photography First Place, NYC4PA Debra Klomp Ching, Juror, NYC
2024 2nd Place, FMoPA, Int. Photography Competition, Tampa Int. Airport, Florida
2024 1st Place, NYC4PA Colors of the Commonplace, Debra Klomp Ching, Juror, NYC
2024 Julia Margaret Cameron category winner in Abstract, Landscape & Cell Phone
2023 Juror’s Award by Susan Burnstine, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
Art Publications
2025 F-stop Magazine, Landscape 2025
2024 Axis Mundi: The Sacred Center exhibit catalog cover, A Smith Gallery
2024 Abstract Photography Magazine feature
2024 F-stop Magazine, Color 2024
2023 Quiet Landscape exhibit catalog cover, Photo Place Gallery
2022 ICM Photography Magazine, March cover
Events/Teaching
2025 Santa Fe Workshops, The Art of Abstract Photography: A Creative Retreat in Santa Fe & San Miguel de Allende, Instructor
2025 Santa Fe Workshops, The Expressive Lens, online workshop instructor
2024 Santa Fe Workshops, ICM + ME Artistry Symposium, presenter
Professional Experience
1986—2006 Photographer specializing in animal imagery represented by Getty Images, Corbis, Photo Researchers and AFLO Japan.
2002—2008 Lindblad Expeditions photo leader in the Galápagos Islands and Baja
1994—2000 Nature columnist, Popular Photography Magazine
1995—1998 Director, Women in Nature Photography Conference/Tours
1986— Founder, NPPA: Women in Visual Journalism Conference, San Jose, CA
1986—1996 Assignment photographer, Sunset Magazine, Menlo Park, CA
1983—1986 Staff photographer, The Peninsula Times-Tribune, Palo Alto, CA
1980—1983 Staff photographer, The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, OK
Selected Credits
Publications: Audubon, Communication Arts, Geo, National Geographic, National/International Wildlife, Newsweek, Outside, Ranger Rick, Sierra Club, Sunset, Terre Sauvage, Time, Travel Holiday, Travel and Leisure, Wildlife Conservation, World Wildlife Fund
Advertising: American Airlines, Animal Planet, Apple, Canon, Discovery, Exxon, Friskies, Hartford Insurance, Jeep, Jaguar, Sony, Microsoft, Volkswagen
Media Interviews
2005 Santa Fe New Mexican, NM February 24
2004 Albuquerque Journal, NM October 8
“Her Calling? To bring the wild to you in pictures”
2002 Photo District News, “Stock Shooters”
2001 PC Photo, May/June, “Fantastic Animals”
1998 Wild Discovery television feature on Discovery Channel
1996 Nature’s Best, National Wildlife Federation Winter Issue, “Teamwork”
1993 Cosmopolitan Magazine, “Women Who Work with Animals"
Representation
Edition One Gallery, Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM
Contact: Pilar Law
IG @reneelynnimages
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