Jim Koepnick is a Digital Journalist and member of the Sigma Ambassador team specializing in aviation, sports and documentary photography. His current freelance clients include Sigma lenses, Flying Magazine, Plane and Pilot, Air and Space Smithsonian, Our Wisconsin Magazine and Cirrus aircraft. Local clients include Oshkosh Area Community Foundation, Discover Oshkosh and Old Glory Honor Flight.
Previously, Jim was Chief Photographer at the Experimental Aircraft Association for 28 years. He was responsible for much of EAA's air-to-air photography for its five publications. He has photographed over 1000 aircraft while on air-to-air missions and supplied over 550 cover images while at EAA.
Koepnick’s artistry, skill and experience have resulted in award-winning images that have been printed in magazines such as Life, Time, Men's Journal, People and Popular Mechanics. His advertising work includes Columbia Coffee, Sigma lenses, RANS aircraft, Cirrus aircraft and Canon.
His photography has has been a consistent winner of awards from Aviation Week and Space Technology, Wisconsin Imaging Photographers Association, American Advertising Federation and Calendar Marketing Association. In 2012 he received the George Hall Lifetime Achievement award from the International Society of Aviation Photographers. In 2023 he received a career achievement award from the International Photographic Council at the UN.
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