Ronald W. Kenyon

Ronald W. Kenyon, essayist, photographer and lecturer, is the author of over twenty books, including compilations of essays about
France, Florida and the Middle East, and ten volumes of photography.

Kenyon spent over half a century living and working in France,
Washington, D.C. and the Middle East. As a free-lance photographer, his works
received numerous awards in France. His collections of photography include the following:

• My Beautiful France. Color landscapes.
• Íle-de France, terres d’inspiration. Color landscapes, texts in French
• Metro Portraits. Color portraits of portraits taken in the Paris Metro
• Metro Messages. Found art, deformed, truncated or deconstructed. Color.
• Paris Smiles: Portraiture from the Seventies. Monochrome portraits taken in Paris in the 1970s.
• France Images & Messages. Signs, graffiti, streets, windows and doors, a polyptych, décollages, portraits. Color. Texts in English and French.
• Photography 2018. Color images taken in southern California, France and the Cyclades Islands of Greece. Buildings, wildflowers, store fronts, fruits and vegetables, landscapes, churches and a polyptych: The Four Seasons.

Sixty-five of Kenyon’s photographs of Asir Provence, in southern Arabia,
were exhibited in January 1980 and a selection was published in 2020 as Asir:
The Unknown Arabia.

Kenyon’s account of long-distance hiking in France, illustrated with 44 of his photographs, was published in English in 2015 as On
the Trail in France and in French in 2021 as RANDONNER: Un Américain découvre la France à pied.

In 2021 Kenyon collaborated with French novelist and playwright Clare Béchet on a portfolio of his color photographs of the Eiffel
Tower at night accompanied by Claire Béchet’s essay, issued in English and French editions.

Ronald W. Kenyon lives in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he continues writing, publishing and lecturing.