Dano Pendygrasse is a snowboarder and action sports photographer based in Vancouver. He grew up in Vancouver, where he loved to skateboard, and moved to Whistler in 1987 to try snowboarding, working for Blackcomb Mountain. He managed Snoboard Shop and became a sponsored snowboarder with Crazy Banana, Sims, and Westbeach. He began photographing the sport in the 1990s, capturing snowboarding on the Blackcomb Glacier, the Whiskey crew, and Devun Walsh's booters. Since, he has been photo editor for an international magazine, a diver in the tropics, and a staff photographer for some of the largest snowboard magazines and brands in the world. He ran the photo and video department at Arc'teryx for three and a half years, leaving in 2017 to co-found The Fissile Group, a product design and marketing consulting company. He is currently base in Vancouver.