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“My work is an iconography of my passion for the sea”

About me

I'm Enric Gener. I was born in 1982 in Menorca, a small island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.

I grew up there till I went to university, where I studied art and design and where I took my first contact with photography. I started to work in motion graphics and design, first in some companies and after that as a freelance.

In 2009 I change my lifestyle, I bought an underwater camera and escape from the city. Because my work is purely digital I started to work remotely. This has allowed me to live in many different places always, but always close to the sea.

Because I used the photography as a commercial purpose, this allowed me to be completely free to find my work model and own style.

About my work

My work is a documentary about the real-life happening around me. And this is always linked with the sea in some way.

Formally I try to be simple and clean, without overfill the frame with too many elements, just taking the essentials that push you to live the experience to be underwater in the same landscapes and situations that I’ve been.

My real passion is the sea, and after that, photography. In that order, that it’s so important to me. But also, photography is my partner on this. Sometimes it is so hard to walk, swim or travel with the camera. But other times is the camera that pushes you to walk farther, swim deeper or travel longer.

Commercial Work & Collaborations

Commercial Work

2023: Sun Screen: art work
2021: EasyJet: advertising campaign
2021: Fornaris: vinyl record cover
2021: Benetton: talk
2020: Estrella Damm: calendar
2020: Sidetracked Magazine: cover v22
2020: Mar de Frades: Sea Conscious
2019: Carl F. Bucherer 1888: magazine cover
2019: Hotel Santanyi: art work
2018: Editions du Seuil: book cover
2017: L’Occitane: advertising campaign
2016: Monaco Marine: advertising campaign
2016: Hendy Associates: art work
2015: Now Then Label Collaboration
2014: Lexus: freediving spot
2014: Glenfiddich: advertising campaign

Awards

2021: Redbull Illume Double Semifinalist
2019: Redbull Illume Finalist
2016: Redbull Illume Finalist
2010: National Geographic Photo of the Day

Exhibitions

2022: WWF
2022: Ciutadella Street Art
2019: Redbull Illume
2019: Exhibition InCadaques
2017: Hotel One Shot
2016: Redbull Illume

Workshops & Talks

2023: Amics de la Mar, Ciutadella, Menorca
2022: Ciencia Ciudadana Marina, Es Mercadal, Menorca
2021: La sostenibilidad según Benetton. Online
2021: Sostenible Conscious Mar de Frades
2019: in Cadaques, Cadaquès, Catalunya
2018: Caixa Forum, Palma, Mallorca
2016: La Nit del Viatger, Es Mercadal, Menorca
2014: Nou Bar, Maó, Menorca

Conservation Work

2024: GOB
www.gobmenorca.com
Collaboration in Sea Turtles

2023: Alnitak
www.alnitak.org
Collaboration in Risso’s Dolphins

2022: Save the Med
www.savethemed.org
Collaboration in Devil Fish

2022: Fundación Palma Aquarium
www.fundacionpalmaaquarium.org
Collaboration Sea Turgles

2020: MARE Balear
www.marebalear.org
Advisory Board

2015: Sea Shepherd
www.seashepherdglobal.org
Photogographer oboard

2014: Cabo Pulmo Natural World Heritage
Photographer volunteer