"The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect."

- Zeena Schreck

Portraits of Healer, Angela.

Photography: Damien Genardi

“Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do.” -Rumi

For MUSE Dance, Portland, Oregon

Photography: Damien Genardi
Creative Director: Heather Beckett
Hair / Makeup / Styling: Heather Beckett, Elodie Massa Allen
 

"What is it like?...It is the sun shining on the rain, and the rain falling on the sunshine."

- Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

Photography: Damien Genardi
Hair / Makeup / Styling: Gina Campbell

Model: Manda

After a difficult relationship, self-healing through Art. A narrative study in portraits of Writer / Director / Artist, Crystal Zingsheim.

"There are a thousand ways to kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again."

- Rumi

Photography: Damien Genardi
Hair: Joe V. @ Proper Salon
Makeup / Styling: Crystal Zingsheim

"You have to die a few times before you can really live."
-Charles Bukowski

For Eraserhead Press's choose your own adventure book for adults, Super Giant Monster Time.
By Jeff Burke and Chrissy Horchheimer.

Photography by: Damien Genardi

Models: Jeff Burke and Chrissy Horchheimer
Makeup and Styling: Gina Marie Campbell and Chrissy Horchheimer

Julian Casablancas + The Voidz @ The Crystal Ballroom, Portland, Oregon. November, 2014.

"The means of defense against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home."

- James Madison

Photography by Damien Genardi.
Assistant: Gina Campbell

"When we first came out, there were a lot of people, especially in England, who wanted to fight us."

- Albert Hammond Jr.

Portraits of Albert Hammond Jr of the Strokes, Rock & Folk Magazine. January, 2014.

Photography: Damien Genardi
Assistant: Gina Campbell

"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls."

- George Carlin

She comes out at night.

Photography: Damien Genardi
Model: Crystal Zingsheim
Makeup / Styling: Crystal Zingsheim

A relationship in portraits. Beginning to End.
With Julie Webb. 2014 - 2016.

The Texture of Falling

Photography: Damien Genardi

"When you launch in a rocket, you’re not really flying that rocket. You’re just sort of hanging on."

- Michael P. Anderson

Rock prodigies, the Strypes, two days after bringing the house down on the Late Show with David Letterman. March, 2014.

The band split up in 2018.

Photography: Damien Genardi

"I used to jog, but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass."

- David Lee Roth

Clem Burke of Blondie, Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols, and Hugh Cornwell of the Stranglers, Rock & Folk Magazine. May, 2012.

Photography by Damien Genardi.

“We became friends after he left for college. He started calling just to talk.”

-Lauren Garrison

Portraits of brother and sister, Evan and Lauren Garrison

Photography: Damien Genardi

"On the edge of a tropical ocean, in a thousand reflections of the silver light of an invisible moon, among undulations of restless waters, ceaselessly changing..."

-Henri Michaux, Miserable Miracle

Photography: Damien Genardi
Makeup and Styling: Ms. C
Model: Ms. C