Stats: Born, raised and still living in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada

Turning point: Started taking photos at fourteen with a hand me down Minolta X-700 35mm SLR from my parents. Although the original body may have fallen to the wayside, I still shoot with the X-700 today.

History: Mostly interested in portraits and live music photography, I started taking my camera with me to hardcore shows, skate sessions and random hang outs since the age of sixteen. It was at this time I enrolled in photography at Sturgeon Creek Collegiate in Winnipeg. The original intention was to continue with a photographic post secondary education. This never transpired as life just started making it’s own path after high school. I never put the camera away. As a result, I have managed to amass a huge collection of photos over the past twenty years that is still growing every day.

Publications: In the early 90’s my photos could be found in hardcore zines such as Maximum Rock n’ Roll, Good and Plenty, No Thanks, X-Press and the infamous Mike Wachs Fan Club. I stopped submitting photos to zines when the internet took over. It’s taken me fifteen years to catch up with the internet and make my photos available to the masses again.

The idea: What’s the point of taking pictures for the past twenty years unless you can share them with people? So therefore, it only made sense to create camnikkel.com. These pictures are not only for myself, but also for the people in them and the people that never got to witness these captured moments the first time around.

Updates: Added a Nikon D200 and a Nikon Coolscan 5000 to the line up in 2008. Since then the X-700 was finally semi-retired as a back up camera and I added a Nikon FM2 and Mamiya C220 to the arsenal.

Film vs. Digital: All colour images pre 2008 were shot on slide or print film. Post 2008 colours images are digital unless stated otherwise. ALL B&W images are shot on film!

2009: Started the Pancakes and Skateboards site.

2010: Participated in a great show called Front Row Centre, went skateboarding in Maui, donated photos for the Call/Response Book/Kids Help Phone fund raiser, helped with Big Woop Magazine and ran some test prints on my own book (not quite there yet).

2011: We launched Pancakes and Skateboards Apparel, threw a party to launch Issue # 1 of our new Zine and...stay tuned.