Michael Cannon was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. Michael began photographing family and friends with his Kodak Brownie camera at the age of 13 years old. Other than some workshops and a few semesters in the photography program at Santa Monica College, he is mostly self-taught.

In Michael’s checkered past, he has worked in a shoe factory, Kentucky Fried Chicken, counted laps at a go-cart track, was a janitor at a Canadian Nuclear Power plant, picked tobacco, worked for a winter in the Arctic Circle, taught English in Phuket, Thailand, worked in the oil patch in Alberta and as a projectionist in a small town movie theater.

Michael has lived in Los Angeles, California since 1991.