UNITED STATES

Kim Komenich graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from San Jose State University. From 1979 to 1982 he worked as a staff photographer for the Contra Costa Times. From 1982 to the present he has worked as a staff photographer for the San Francisco Examiner. He received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for his coverage of the Philippine revolution. He also received the World Press Photo award in 1983 for picture stories and the national Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists in 1987. His freelance photography has appeared in Life, Time, People, Fortune, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report and news magazines around the world. He was among the photographers invited to contribute to A Day in the Life of California, Christmas in America, Power to Heal, and The Mission books. His work is included in 15 Seconds: The 1989 San Francisco Earthquake. He has covered stories in Vietnam, the Soviet Union, El Salvador and Guyana. He has worked extensively in the Philippines. Komenich has taught a class in advanced documentary photography at the San Francisco Academy of Art College for nine years. He lectures regularly to photography and journalism schools and organizations. He was a 1993-94 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. He studied the impact of technology on news photography. He was a judge in the 1994 Pictures of the Year competition sponsored by the National Press Photographers' Association and the University of Missouri. In 1994 and 1995, he was on the faculty of the Missouri Photo Workshop.