Kim Komenich Staff Photographer, San Francisco Chronicle

Kim is currently a graduate professor of Journalism at the University of California–Berkeley and the San Francisco Academy of Art. He has been a staff photographer at the San Francisco Examiner (now the San Francisco Chronicle) since 1982. He has also been a visiting instructor at the Missouri School of Journalism. Komenich’s work has been in LIFE, TIME, People, Fortune, and Newsweek. His book projects include A Day In the Life of California, 24 Hours in Cyberspace, Power to Heal, and One Digital Day. In 1993-94 he was a Knight Fellow at Stanford. Komenich graduated from San Jose State University with a journalism degree and then worked as a staff photographer at the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek, California. He received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Philippine revolution, the World Press Photo award for news picture stories and the SPJ distinguished service award. This is Komenich’s seventh year at the workshop; he was a participant in 1991.