About

I’m Enric Gener. I was born in 1982 in Menorca, a small island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Growing up here, surrounded by water, taught me the most important aspect of my work: a natural connection with the sea. Because before photographing it, you have to feel it and understand it—just like learning a language natively, when it becomes an intrinsic part of you without even realizing how it happened.

Years later, I left the island to study art and design at university, where I had my first contact with photography. However, my early work was more focused on design and audiovisual projects in advertising.

Then one day, everything changed. In 2009, I reached a turning point in my life—I left my job and city life behind to embark on the project that has brought us here today: 27MM. I bought an underwater camera and moved to another island. To sustain my passion for underwater photography, I continued working as a freelance designer until, little by little, I managed to turn that passion into a way of life and my profession. This slow learning process was essential in shaping my own style and working model, giving me the freedom to create without the constraints of commercial demands.

This nomadic lifestyle has taken me to many different places, including the Canary Islands, Egypt, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, and Australia—but always close to the sea and always with my camera in hand.

A few years ago, I returned to Menorca, but with a transformed perspective shaped by my experiences abroad. Now, I make the most of the summer on the island, focusing on more local and in-depth work, with a growing commitment to marine conservation and protection. In winter, I continue to travel, seeking out new underwater worlds to explore.

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.

2025: Underwater Photographer of the Year Black & White Winner
2024: Water Sports Photography Awards Underwater Winner
2024: Ocean Photographer of the Year Finalist
2021: Redbull Illume Double Semifinalist
2019: Redbull Illume Finalist
2016: Redbull Illume Finalist
2010: National Geographic Photo of the Day

From 2024: GOB Collaboration in Sea Turtles
From 2023: Alnitak Collaboration in Risso’s Dolphins
From 2022: Save the Med Collaboration in Devil Fish
From 2022: Fundación Palma Aquarium Collaboration Sea Turgles
From 2020: MARE Balear Advisory Board
2015: Sea Shepherd Photogographer oboard
2014: Cabo Pulmo Natural World Heritage Photographer volunteer

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

2025: Nature
2024: Forbes
2024: El Mundo
2024: Telecinco
2024: Mondo Menorca 3/3
2024: Mondo Menorca 2/3
2024: Mondo Menorca 1/3
2023: El Loft Editorial
2019: Ocean Culture
2019: Plongez Magazine
2019: Dive Photo Guide
2018: In Palma Magazine
2018: Ocean Culture
2015: My Modern Met
2015: The Guardian
2015: Condé Nast Traveler
2015: Twisted Sifter
2015: El Comercio
2013: Humanize Magazine Issue 17
2013: Design You Trust
2013: Art Sheep
2013: La Sullivan
2012: Cultura Inquieta Magazine
2011: Yorokobu
2011: My Modern Met

2025: OPY Collective at Sea Works
2025: OPY Collective at Australian National Marine Museum
2024: Lumen Museum
2022: WWF
2022: Ciutadella Street Art
2019: Redbull Illume
2019: Exhibition InCadaques
2017: Hotel One Shot
2016: Redbull Illume

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