Norman Reneau

Norman Reneau studied photography with the School of Modern Photography (SMP), New York Institute of Photography, and West Coast School, an intensive educational program of the Professional Photographers of California. His photography skills and artistic acumen are continually being enhanced and updated through membership and affiliation with organizations like The Professional Photographers of America/California/Los Angeles and The Wedding & Portrait Photographers International.

This photographer has maintained a professional studio practice specializing in weddings, portraiture, and social and professional events, many of a high-profile nature. His reputation for artistic and original rendering of stage and performing arts has garnered clients such as The Long Beach Ballet, Heidi Duckler Dance Company, Lula Washington Dance Company, National Association of Negro Musicians, Leimert Park Art & Culture Festival, Barbara Morrison Jazz & Blues Museum, Los Angeles Grand Performances, The Los Angeles Caribbean Carnival, Miami Broward One Carnival, et al. His photographic fine art has been exhibited in galleries at Los Angeles, CA, and Miami, Fl. 

The images herein submitted represent a small sample of a long-term study of the Garifuna People in Los Angeles: their fervent spiritual life of Roman Catholicism enriched with the beliefs and rituals of their African and Indigenous Caribbean ancestors; their fierce pride in their self-determined and maintained freedom from slavery; the keeping and fostering of the original Garifuna spirit and culture.