David Gaz

David Gaz was born in Midland, Michigan and grew up just outside of Newark New Jersey. After graduating in 1988 from Art Center College of Design, David Gaz went to Paris, where he spent seven years developing his unique processes for photography and cinematography. The techniques, which involve layers of film illuminated with saturated color, have already received two U.S. patents with three more pending. Gaz returned to the States in 1996 to setup his first studio in San Francisco, where he developed an impressive list of clients, including Levi's, Kodak, Sony Music, Warner Bros. and Disney. In 2002, he opened a second office in Los Angeles, which is dedicated to projects in film. Gaz's work and style attract the spotlight. He has been covered extensively by Communication Arts, Graphis, Photo Insider, Range Finder, Post Magazine, Photo District News, The San Francisco Examiner Sunday Magazine and the French publications BAT and L'Etape Graphique and several of his pieces have been selected for the permanent collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. His film credits include the feature films, Diamond Zero, People Who Die Mysteriously In Their Sleep and Surviving The 21st Century. Diamond Zero won the award for Best Narrative Feature in 2007 at the Brilliant Light Film Festival.