Team Chapnick

Komenich heads the photojournalism and documentary sequence in the Journalism Department at San Francisco State University. Komenich was awarded the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for his coverage of the 1986 Philippine People Power Revolution for the San Francisco Examiner. In 2007, at age 50, he received his MA in journalism from the University of Missouri, where he studied the history and practice of multimedia photojournalism. As an educator, Komenich received the 2005 Clifton C. Edom Education Award from the National Press Photographers' Association. Ask Komenich about the time he stopped a bank robber with a bear hug in 2010 on a break between classes at San Jose State. This is his 31st year being a part of MPW.

Chapin is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Times’ Photography Department. She joined the L.A. Times in 2023 after serving as the deputy director of the Boston Globe’s photography department since 2005. Chapin was part of the Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings in 2014. Before coming to the Globe, she worked for the Saginaw News in Michigan as a design and photo editor and served as a day and sports photo editor for eight years at New York Newsday. She is also a graduate from the University of Missouri. This is her fourth year being a part of MPW and her third year as faculty.