Born in Los Angeles with a Master’s degree in French Literature from UC Santa Barbara, Garnier’s circuitous road led him into the photographic world some 20 years ago. Since then he has developed many projects including: “Non-Places” and “Made/Unmade” (divergent looks at man’s disconnection from the people and places in our modern society, “LA Icons” (a nostalgic view of Los Angeles unique architecture) and more recently “re[VOIR]” a black & white series utilizing negative space in an effort to encourage contemplation and introspection.
Garnier’s books including: The Great Picture: Making the World’s Largest Photograph, part of a 15 year documentary on the shuttered El Toro Marine Base with The Legacy Project, On The Beach, a collaborative work featuring chance driven portraits of beach-goers across the country, Second Chances - a five year exploration of the disappearing landscapes and man’s relationship to the environment in the Mojave desert, Revival – a visual observation on man’s struggles to live with nature and most recently A Deconstructed Odyssey – an investigation into the politics of space by eliminating the clutter from building facades encouraging a ‘new way of se
