Marc Renaud was born in Lausanne in 1969. He completed an apprenticeship as a photographer and then trained in documentary photography at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York.

He has developed a number of documentary projects on social issues (notably security, work and money). In 2014 he won the Fribourg photographic survey with Dossier hospitalier, a work on hospital reforms. In 2016 he published the book en fusion on the process of merging communes and in 2019 No Blackout on electricity in Switzerland and the issues surrounding its provenance. Organisation and societal structures are recurring themes in Marc Renaud’s work. In particular, he focuses on the state of change, evolution and reform.

How is change initiated in our society? What drives and hinders it? And to what end? These images have been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions in galleries and festivals in Switzerland and Europe. He publishes his own work or work commissioned by the national and international press (notably in NZZ Folio, Geo, Le Temps, Liberation, Animan, Du, Amica (Italy), Esquire (Russia), Basler Zeitung, SonntagsBlick, Der Bund, etc.).