damon.casarez@gmail.com

(951) 255-5977

Damon Casarez (b. 1987) is a, commercially trained, San Francisco Bay Area based portrait and documentary photographer working on human interest and social issue stories. After graduating from ArtCenter College of Design’s photography program in 2012, he began assisting product, fashion, and portrait photographers around L.A. In 2014, he pitched a personal project to The NY Times Magazine on “boomerang kids” which led to continuing the project across eight states and becoming the cover story that week. The story immediately went viral in the photo community, starting his career as a working editorial photographer. Since then, he has taken repeat assignments from editorial and newspaper clients shooting a range of subject matter from academy award-winning directors to Midwestern farmers. His approach to assignment work is a reflection of his own personal work in which he uses the subject, environment, and lighting to compose thoughtful, cinematic scenes from daily life. In 2016 he was named one of PDN Magazine’s “photographer to watch” as well as being published in the 33rd and 36th annual book, American Photography.

Partial Client List: 

The New York Times Magazine, TIME, WIRED, Univ. of Southern California, The Atlantic, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Fast Company, Fortune, ESPN The Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Pacific Standard, Medium, MIT Tech Review, UCLA Magazine.