Eric Genillier works as a Director of Photography in advertising, documentary filmmaking, and cinema. From an early age, he has been driven by a deep passion for imagery, whether photographic or cinematic. His career began in photography and naturally expanded into framing (cinematography) and lighting, fields in which he has developed an approach that is both technical and sensitive.

In 1994, he spent a year filming in the heart of the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. He co-directed for France Télévisions the series Chronicles of Untamned Africa (Chroniques de l’Afrique sauvage), consisting of 12 wildlife films of 52 minutes each, broadcast in 40 countries for more than 20 years. One year later, he repeated the experience with a second series entitled Chronicles of Untamned Amazonia (Chroniques de l’Amazonie sauvage).

Eric Genillier has collaborated on more than 300 films across a wide range of fields: fiction (short films, including one nominated for an Academy Award, and television films for Canal+), performing arts (filming stage productions such as Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Roi Nu, among others), advertising, and corporate films (Hermès, Vuitton, L’Oréal, Nissan, Peugeot, Société Générale). He works both for television networks (Arte, France Télévisions, Canal+, TF1) and major international advertising agencies (TBWA, Publicis, Young & Rubicam, McCann, among others).

Regularly sought after by directors and producers for his technical expertise and artistic sensitivity, he has never abandoned photography, bringing back from his many travels images of the places and people he encounters.

More recently, he contributed as a photographer to two books writen by André Cognard, martial arts master and author: Conte d’Inari and L’Infinitude du Corps. These collaborations opened up a new field of visual exploration, blending the intimacy of gesture, the poetry of movement, and a search for meaning, at the intersection of still imagery and thought in motion.