Jim Gensheimer

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Jim Gensheimer is a photojournalist at the San Jose Mercury News. A 1982 graduate of Western Kentucky University and a former intern at National Geographic, Gensheimer worked at the Louisville Courier-Journal for two years before joining the staff of the San Jose Mercury News in 1984. He was named California Press Photographer of the Year in 1988 and 1992. In 1995, he was the first American newspaper photojournalist to go to North Korea since the war. Gensheimer attended Ohio University as a Knight fellow and earned a master's degree in visual communications in 1999.

He has worked on several book projects: "A Day in the life of California," "In pursuit of Ideas; The 125th Anniversary of the University of California," "Once Upon a Dream; The Vietnamese - American Experience," and "24 Hours in Cyberspace."