ABOUT
As a Los Angeles native I spent much of my life living the typical Southern California lifestyle-near the water. If I wasn’t on the beach I was usually sailing in the local waters and beyond.
My love for the sea and music was followed by my passion for sailing and photography. Though I was encouraged by my Jazz musician father to pursue music, my desire to produce interesting photographs was unyielding. Sailing and seascape photography were a natural progression since I seldom traveled anywhere without my camera and was always on a sailboat.
Eventually I developed an interest for editorial, fashion, and portrait photography. I’m sure that I was influenced by the images I admired as a kid that I found in the magazines on the family coffee table – Harper’s, Life, Look, Vogue, The Los Angeles Times. Later I also enjoyed the pictures I would find in Interview, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and then any Euro fashion magazines I could find.
Inspiration also came from legendary lensmen such as Richard Avedon, Guy Bourdin, Hiro, Irving Penn, and Edward Weston among many others.
I’m certainly not implying that my images parallel the work of those great photographers, but they definitely were a catalyst that fueled my passion.
The Travel page shows images of Mexico from the many excursions to that wonderful country either by land or sea. The Yachting page includes images that were mostly shot while racing or cruising within the geographic triangle of San Francisco, Hawaii, and mainland Mexico.
Thanks for visiting.
Gene Prizer
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Gene currently resides in Huntington Beach, California where he enjoys sailing and raising his young son Jack.
All images are ©Prizer Photo 2009 All Rights Reserved.