Mike Schennum is a photojournalist with The Arizona Republic.[1] His face appeared on a 2012 Time magazine cover montage for a story about Latino voters, despite the fact that Schennum is of half Chinese, and half Irish-Norwegian ancestry.[2][3]
Schennum earned a B.A. in art from University of California, Santa Cruz in 2000.[4] He also took photojournalism courses at San Francisco State University. His first Intro to Photography class sparked his interest in photojournalism.[5]
Schennum has been working in professional photojournalism for eight years. He works as a staff photographer for The Arizona Republic. Prior to working here, he was an intern at the Appleton Post-Crescent and the Palo Alto Daily News. He also taught courses in photojournalism at Arizona State University. He has done freelance work for a number of magazines and newspapers across the US.
Schennum is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association. He was also on the board of the local Arizona chapter for seven years.
In 2005 he won the Sports Illustrated Assignment award.[5]