Michael Zajakowski - CHICAGO TRIBUNE MAGAZINE

Michael Zajakowski has been a photojournalist, director of photography and photo editor for 28 years. He began his career in photojournalism in Chicago after studying with Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist John H. White at Columbia College. As a staff photographer for The Times of Northwest Indiana, he was The Times’ first foreign correspondent, reporting from Poland as the country emerged from Communism in 1989. As an early advocate of digital photojournalism, Michael was invited to present at South Africa’s first photojournalism conference. Michael joined the Chicago Tribune in 1998, and currently is the picture editor for the Chicago Tribune Magazine and other feature sections. He also designs pages and occasionally contributes photography book reviews. Michael was a contributing editor and photographer for CITY2000, a major project to document the city of Chicago at the turn of the century. Michaelalso teaches visual communication in the graduate journalism program at DePaul University in Chicago.