Damian is a lifelong documentary photographer who originally hails from Newark, Delaware. Damian graduated from Boston University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in English and Anthropology, and two weeks later boarded a place bound for Kyrgyzstan to serve in the Peace Corps.

He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Kyrgyz Republic from 1999-2001 teaching English in a remote, Russian speaking village. Later, he earned a Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Russian, Eastern Europe and Central Asian Studies with a concentration in Human and Political Geography and returned to the Kyrgyz republic from 2005-2006 as a Fulbright researcher. In 2006 he moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn, and later to Crown Heights.

While in New York City, Damian earned a Master’s degree in digital photography at the School of Visual Arts. His work was acquired by the Brooklyn Museum in 2010.