[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Kanights grew up in San Francisco, California, photographing and skateboarding throughout the city.
[2] Kanights was the first skateboarder to be sponsored by Billabong but earned very little money from the sponsorship and his photography continued to be his primary source of income.
[2] As he describes on his website,[10] he started shooting his first photographs as a teenager, when he was skateboarding in San Francisco.
Since then his passion for photography only grew, until he was able to make it his job.
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