Born and raised in mainland Denmark, Mikkel has been photographing and engaged in social work most of his life. After graduation as a photojournalist from the Danish School of Media and Journalism in 2012 he has been working as a freelancer primarily based in Copenhagen. He has worked on stories in Europe, Asia and America focusing on social issues and in 2014 he graduated The New School in New York with a degree in Documentary Film Studies. Since 2018 Mikkel has been a staff photojournalist and documentarist at the nationwide Danish newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad.