Damon Webster

Damon brings over 23 years of producing experience to Saatchi & Saatchi, LA. From an early start in advertising as an assistant photographer in Manhattan through working in over thirty countries in his freelance career, he understands the need to look beyond our land mass boundaries for the creative production of advertising.

Before joining Saatchi & Saatchi as Director of Advertising Production, he was a freelance producer for 19 years, with 10 years on the production side and 9 on the agency side. In between the transition from one to the other, Damon was half of a motion picture trailer company. "There has been no other deadline in my life like getting ready for ShoWest. It was the first 72 hour day of my career."

At the start of his career, the production company traditionally finished the spots. After 1981, it all changed and the agency took it on. It was the frustration of non-completion which sent him first to the trailer business, which was all post, to the agency side where you began and finished the project.

He has photographed a range of subjects from a Manson family member in prison, Playboy models, and musicians such as Bruce Springsteen, Talking Heads, Dizzy Gillispie, Sonny Rollins, Joni Mitchell and Jaco Pastorious.

In his time he has produced for Levi’s, MacDonalds, VH-1, Mercedes, Acura, Toyota, Blue Cross, NBA, Coca-Cola, Capitol Records, Squaresoft, Wrangler, Hewlett Packard,Apple,and RC Cola to name a few.

The agencies have ranged from Goodby, Silverstein, & Partners , Fallon McElligott,Berlin,and Chiat Day to BBDO,Y&R , and FCB. And many in-between.

Awards have ranged from a few major, such as Cannes Lion, to many minor, like New York Festivals. All can be seen in a box in the garage.