“I dont consider myself a photographer im an artist…I grew up around graffiti, taggin Muni, black books, Drawing & writing lyrics.”

Damien Grew up in San Francisco’s Mission District back in the day when the streets of the Mish weren’t so forgiving, long before the hipsters were allowed to move in and pedal their fixies freely.  Back in a time when random dudes like yours truly would have knives pulled out on them followed by a line that meant business “take that shit back to the aves. whiteboy.”  The Mission is still the Mission, will always be the mission but it’s nothing like those days throughout the 90’s.

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