My Biography

Irena Iris Willard is a young Franco-Polish photographer born in Paris. Graduated in Cultural Heritage in Paris, she was invited for an European grant to the Fine Art Academy in Rome. Irena Iris has participated in many exhibitions, but she is an autodidact photographer who began to present her photographies after the terrorist attacks on Paris, she organised an exhibition to show that “Paris will always be the city of Light”. After the success of the exhibiton, she was invited to present other pictures of Paris in the Museum of the City of Rimini. The serie “the Renaissance of Paris “ connecting photography and painting. She was then invited by the Art director of the MedPhotoFest to partecipate in the Festival with a serie of pictures about Light. Other pictures were presented during a personal exhibition in the Embassy Art Gallery in Rimini and the Forli art fair.
Exhibitions:
• May-June-July 2017 exhibition at the Augeo Art Space Rimini
• March 2017 Exhibition "Reflections, Riflessioni", Istituto Portoghese di Sant' Antonio, Rome, Italy. Support from the Portuguese Embassy
• December 2016 Personal exhibition "Metamorphosis of Light", Embassy Gallery, Rimini
• May 2016 Personal exhibition "Light" during the professional photography festival Medphotofest, Sicily, with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture
•December 2016 exhibition at the Museum of the City, Forli Art Fair