Genie C. Balantac is a California-based photographer, educator, and social worker whose work explores pilgrimage, memory, grief, home, and belonging. Working in both digital and film photography, she creates portraits, still lifes, travel essays, and documentary projects rooted in everyday acts of noticing.

Her photography brings together documentary storytelling, self-portraiture, pilgrimage, memory, and therapeutic reflection, exploring how photographs can help us notice, remember, heal, and connect.

She is the creator of PPM™ (Pilgrimage Photography Method™), an evolving practice that brings together photography, presence, creativity, and lived experience. Through MAHAL™, she continues to explore how photography can become a companion to healing, remembering, wandering, and living attentively.

Her photographs have been exhibited internationally and published in magazines, CD covers, and collaborative projects. As both an artist and future clinical social worker, she is interested in the ways photography can foster connection, reflection, and well-being.

When she's not behind the camera, Genie can often be found browsing charity shops, collecting vintage cameras, watching classic films, or planning her next pilgrimage.