Akim Aginsky is an editorial, commercial and portrait photographer, and a proud member of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), and of the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA). Akim currently freelances for Swift Communications (The Union), and worked as a staff photographer for Gold Country Media and Brehm Communications, Inc. (The Auburn Journal), both in the California Sierra Nevada foothills. He has also worked for The Examiner Newspapers (San Francisco/Peninsula), ANG Newspapers (The Oakland Tribune/The San Mateo Times/The Hayward Daily Review) as well as New Times Inc. (SF Weekly). His photographs have also appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle and The Honolulu Advertiser newspapers, Spin and Stress magazines in New York, Mean Street magazine in Los Angeles, Freeway magazine in Paris, France, and Sports Illustrated, SI.com online. Akim's work has been published in "San Francisco: The City's Sights and Secrets," by Chronicle Books. Akim has a B.A. in Art from UC Santa Cruz and has also studied art at the University Michelle de Montagne in Bordeaux, France.