Renée Jacobs, born in Philadephia, Pennsylvania practiced civil rights and constitutional law in Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles, California until she began photographing again in 2006. Her first book, Slow Burn: A Photodocument of Centralia, Pennsylvania, was published by the Univerity of Pennsylvania Press in 1986 and favorably reviewed in The New York Times Review of Books.

When Renée was 9 years old, someone asked her if she was from Paris. ¿Why yes!¿ she said. She, of course, is not. She is American. But perhaps the fact that her American parents gave her a French name, even with an accent, sparked her lifelong fascination with the City of Light. Photographing women in Paris over the last two years has been the perfect blending of Jacobs¿ erotic message about the sexual power of women and an homage to the city where everything sensual seems possible.

Jacobs is the recipient of the prestigious International Photography Award (Lucies) for Fine Art Nude Photography and her images have been published around the world in such publications as Tachen¿s New Erotic Photography, Fine Art Photo Magazine, Silvershotz, Adore Noir, PH Magazine and most recently in her solo monograph WERKDRUCK published by GALERIE VEVAIS, edited and with an introduction by Jock Sturges.

Professor John Wood wrote in his introduction to PARIS:

¿The quality I am perhaps most touched by in Jacobs¿ art is its charm, a charm which has its own magic, its own narcotic allure ¿ The joy sings through Jacobs¿ lens.¿