Born in Calgary, Kevin Van Paassen graduated from the Journalism Arts program at the Southern Alberta Institue of Technology in 1997. He moved to Toronto in 1999 and joined The Globe and Mail as a staff photographer in 2004. Based in Toronto, Van Paassen has photographed a wide variety of assignments for The Globe, across Canada and around the world, including stories examining Canada's health care system, the war in Afghanistan and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England.
