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2026 Zombie Business Photoshoot

Zombie Business Day around Davis, September 30, 2026. Photography by Jessi Davis.

A man sits still with his eyes closed while a makeup artist sponges pale purple zombie makeup across his cheek, in a lodge hall set with round tables.

A makeup artist leans in with a fine brush to paint a black crack across the forehead of a man in purple and green zombie makeup.

A woman in a Zombie Bike Parade t-shirt has green zombie makeup with painted skull teeth finished off at her eyebrow with a brush.

Close-up of a man having lavender zombie makeup blended around his eye with a small sponge, his eyes shut and a faint smile on his face.

A man in purple and green zombie makeup sits in a carved wooden lodge chair, framed by a hand-painted board of cobwebs, bones and dancing zombies.

A woman in green skull makeup and a Zombie Bike Parade t-shirt perches sideways in the carved lodge chair inside the painted zombie frame.

A man in green zombie makeup with a painted exposed brain throws one arm in the air from the carved lodge chair inside the painted frame.

A man in purple zombie makeup slouches in the carved lodge chair with one arm flung over the painted cobweb frame, pulling a snarl for the camera.

A woman in green skull face paint sits cross-legged in the carved lodge chair, one arm stretched along the painted frame beside her.

Two zombies in purple and green face paint peer through the round porthole window of a wooden kitchen door.

Two sets of swing doors below an EXIT sign, with a zombie pressing his hands to the glass in one porthole and a second zombie staring out of the other.

Black and white: a group backs away down the hallway while three zombies crowd the doorway, one framed in the porthole window.

Black and white: five people in a panelled hallway recoil with their hands up as two zombies lean out from behind a swing door.

Three zombies squeeze around the edge of a swing door, one looking out through the porthole, one over the top and one peering around at waist height.

Black and white: zombies stride out through the open doors with their arms raised while the group in the hallway scatters.

Black and white: a zombie in skull makeup runs down the hallway with her arms out as two people throw their hands up in front of her.

Black and white: four people stand back with their hands raised as a zombie pushes the swing door open from the other side.

Looking down into the lodge kitchen: five people in white lab coats and zombie face paint crowd around a stainless steel counter where a zombie in a white shirt lies pretending to struggle.

Looking down the length of the kitchen counter at a zombie lying flat with arms outstretched, ringed by lab-coated figures holding a knife and kitchen tongs.

A wide view of the kitchen tableau: seven people in zombie makeup, most in white lab coats, surround a zombie lying on the counter with his hands raised.

Close in on a zombie in purple face paint lying on the kitchen counter as two people in lab coats lean over him, one raising a cleaver.

The mad scientists in lab coats lean over a zombie laid out on the stainless counter, one holding a cleaver and another a whisk, while he throws his hands up and yells.

The full kitchen tableau from above: a zombie lies on the counter while eight others in lab coats and face paint reach in with knives, tongs and a skewer.

A second kitchen tableau: a zombie in a Zombie Bike Parade t-shirt lies on the stainless counter while nine people in lab coats and face paint lean in around her.

A vertical view of the kitchen scene, the zombie flat on the stainless counter and the lab-coated crowd closing in from every side.

The lab-coated crowd closes in over a zombie lying on the kitchen counter, two of them holding up ice cream scoops.

Close on the kitchen counter as a zombie in green face paint lies back, a cleaver held across her and the scientists leaning in overhead.

Three people in zombie makeup hold up a white Davis Odd Fellows banner against a wood-panelled wall, hands raised in a claw pose.

A teller clutches her face and screams for the camera as a dozen zombies loom over the counter behind her at First Northern Bank.

Bank staff and zombies crowd behind the teller counter at First Northern Bank, grinning and reaching forward over the desk.

A wider frame of the same bank scene, a teller screaming with her hands to her cheeks while zombies in face paint reach over the counter around her.

The bank teller line again with everyone throwing their hands up in a zombie pose, two in white lab coats on the customer side of the counter.

The full teller line at First Northern Bank, staff and zombies in face paint turning to smile at the camera along a stone-faced counter with pumpkins and autumn flowers.

A group in zombie makeup, several in white lab coats, shambles down the entrance steps under the Golden 1 Credit Union sign.

The zombie group posed on the Golden 1 Credit Union steps, arms outstretched, with the branch sign above them.

Nine people in zombie face paint crowd down the Golden 1 Credit Union steps towards the camera with their hands out.

Zombies converge on the Odd Fellows Hall doors from the sidewalk while one man pulls the door open, the neon Zombie Bike Parade sign in the window beside them.

Four zombies crouch and lean outside the Odd Fellows Hall doors beside the neon sign reading Davis Odd Fellows, Home of the Zombie Bike Parade.

The same doorway from a step back: zombies posing outside the glass doors under the Zombie Bike Parade neon sign, with two more waving from inside.

A dozen zombies pose with their hands up inside Mishka's Cafe, the espresso menu board and shelves of syrup bottles behind them.

A wider frame of the same doorway scene, a line of zombies reaching towards the hall doors in the afternoon sun.

A wider frame outside Mishka's Cafe, the group in face paint waving and clawing at the camera along the storefront.

The zombie group poses on the brick sidewalk outside Mishka's Cafe, some kneeling, under the MISHKAS sign.

Black and white: a wide view of the Varsity Theatre with its neon sign, the group of zombies small along the sidewalk below.

Black and white: a line of zombies shambles along the sidewalk past the Varsity Theatre doors under the marquee.

Black and white: the Varsity Theatre on a bright afternoon, its curved neon sign and marquee above the entrance, with a few people on the sidewalk.

Black and white: the zombie group strung out along the sidewalk beneath the Varsity Theatre marquee, arms reaching ahead of them.

Nine zombies pose on the blue terrazzo outside the Varsity Theatre, some crouching, framed by the film posters in the lobby windows.

Zombies converge on the round Varsity Theatre ticket booth, one pretending to buy a ticket while the rest close in from both sides.

Two zombies press up against the black railings of a parking structure, reaching their hands through the bars.

The same railing shot from further back, zombies reaching over and through the bars along the length of the fence.

Twelve zombies line the parking garage railing, hands gripping the bars and reaching towards the camera, one shouting at the back.

A dozen zombies crowd behind the parking garage railings with their arms thrust up through the bars, shrubs in the foreground.

A second pose outside the Varsity Theatre, zombies on the terrazzo and perched on the window ledge beside the poster cases.

A wider frame of the railing line, zombies pressed against the bars with a concrete planter and shrubs in front.

A zombie in a torn white t-shirt leans out from behind a tree trunk on a sunny street, waving and grinning at the camera.

A wider frame of the same street corner, four zombies converging with their arms out while one holds a sword in the air.

Zombies close in on a cyclist on a sunny street corner, one in a white pirate shirt holding a thin sword aloft.

A cyclist in a helmet and blue polo shirt pedals away wide eyed while a trailer load of zombies reaches for him from a Junk Removal and Hauling truck.

Close on the hauling trailer with zombies hanging over its rails, claws out, as a cyclist in a blue polo shirt rides past in front of them.

The same chase from a step back: nine zombies lean over the side of the black hauling trailer towards a cyclist in the street.

A cyclist in a helmet looks back over his shoulder as zombies lean out of the Dump Dawgz hauling trailer and two more close in from the kerb.

A wider frame of the trailer chase, the cyclist pushing off while zombies reach for him from the trailer and the roadside.

Black and white: the same trailer group portrait, a man in front throwing his arms wide while zombies lean over the rail behind him.

Close on the cyclist beside the Dump Dawgz trailer, zombies hanging over the rails above him and reaching in from the right.

A group in zombie face paint lean out of a black Dump Dawgz dump trailer with clawed hands while a man in a work polo stands calmly in front, arms folded.

Ten zombies pose along the top rail of the black Dump Dawgz junk removal trailer, one standing in front with his arms folded.

The group poses in zombie makeup among the agaves at the UC DAVIS entry sign, one kneeling in front with a hand stretched toward the camera.

A man in a green-splattered lab coat photographs the zombie group as they pose along the UC DAVIS entry sign.

Zombies crouch and reach out of the shrubs along the weathered steel UC DAVIS entry sign under a deep blue sky.

The zombie group shuffles toward a man in a splattered lab coat in front of the UC DAVIS sign, arms outstretched.

Zombies crowd around and inside a red British telephone box outside a campus building, hands raised, a palm tree and sun flare overhead.

A tight group in bright zombie face paint crowd the red telephone box, some packed inside the glass and others lunging toward the camera.

The group clusters around a red telephone box in the afternoon sun, several pressed against the glass inside and others clawing at the doors.

Zombies fill the aisle of a city bus, hanging from the grab handles and reaching toward the camera between the seats.

The group shuffles down a campus path in a loose line, arms hanging forward in a slow zombie walk.

Zombies lurch across the plaza in front of the Memorial Union, a man in front leading with both arms thrown wide.

The group advances past the Memorial Union in bright sun, hands raised and faces painted green and purple.

A black and white frame of the zombie walk along a tree-shaded campus path, long shadows stretching across the pavement.

A woman in a torn and stained t-shirt roars at the camera mid-stride while the rest of the group shuffles behind her near the Memorial Union.

A man in a ruffled shirt carrying a thin sword leads two others in a slow zombie walk across the sunlit plaza.

The group drapes itself over the orange International House sign, one person kneeling underneath and reaching through the gap.

A woman in striped trousers bends double in a zombie stagger as a man in a ruffled shirt and sword walks past, sun flaring across the frame.

Zombies crowd both ends of the orange International House sign with hands raised, one crouched low behind the boards.

A woman in a Zombie Bike Parade t-shirt and a zombie in a grey shroud pose behind the International House sign, a third face peeking over the top.

The whole group lines up along the orange International House sign in front of the building's grey wall.

Two zombies lean on the International House sign beside a woman in a stained t-shirt, with another face peering over the boards.

The group gathers in the doorway of International House Davis, below the American, California and Pride flags.

Zombies spill out of the International House Davis entrance, a man in a lab coat kneeling in front with one arm reaching toward the camera.

The group crowds the International House doorway around a woman holding up a free i-fest flyer.

Four zombies pose along a studio window beneath an Inspire Martial Arts now enrolling banner.

Five zombies strike loose martial arts poses under the Inspire Martial Arts banner, one in a lab coat and one in a grey shroud.

A woman in a Zombie Bike Parade t-shirt crouches at a brick wall reaching toward the camera, with a zombie in a grey shroud rising behind the hedge.

The group lines up in mock fighting stances along the studio windows beneath the Inspire Martial Arts banner.

A man in a ruffled shirt stretches a sword up toward the Inspire Martial Arts letters while five zombies lurk in the hedge below.

Zombies crouch behind the hedges while one reaches up with a thin sword toward the Inspire Martial Arts sign.

Photos: Jessi Davis. Takedown requests

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