Alex O. Gaynor grew up throughout the U.S. and is influenced by his time traveling the Midwest and the South. Eventually he landed in Hawesville, Kentucky, the self-professed "Sorghum Capital of the World" and then went on to study mechanical engineering for a time at the University of Kentucky. 

While working summers as an engineer, he rediscovered his childhood hobby of stop motion animation and sound editing and finished his undergraduate work with a degree in Telecommunications.  After working as an Avid Symphony editor for a post-production house and a camera operator for ABC, he pursued a graduate degree in film production at Chapman University in southern California with an emphasis in directing and cinematography.

While still in school, Alex was offered feature work as a cinematographer and camera operator and left Chapman to work professionally in Los Angeles.  In 2007, he returned to Chapman to begin principal photography on his master’s thesis film Wid Winner & the Slipstream, to be completed in 2009.

Alex currently lives in Los Angeles and works as a gaffer and cinematographer in film, television, and commercials.  Alex also serves as a summer professor at the prestigious Idyllwild School of the Arts where he teaches directing and cinematography.   

photo courtesy of jeremy rush