Mike Azzarello Krayenhoff

Mike lives on Salt Spring Island, BC, a place best known as an artist’s paradise.  She travels widely and has visited both large cities and rural communities in China, India, Pakistan, England, Australia, USA and Canada in the last few years.  An experienced street photographer, she captures the stark contrasts in these different parts of the world as well as our shared humanity.

Her long-standing interests in community and theatre inform Mike’s photographic practice.  Graduating with a Performing Arts Degree from Simon Fraser University she began photographing dancers in motion, actors in stage-light and people in the streets of Vancouver.

Recently returning to school to hone her digital photographic skills, she attended the Professional Photography program at Western Academy of Photography and emerged with a passion for documenting people in their environments.

Unseen Streets

Mike founded Unseen Streets as a way to shed light on the characters and issues that are present in every community that mostly people don’t want to talk about.