For twenty-five years Jim Veneman has served as a university professor of photojournalism. Recently, Jim and his wife, Carol, were involved in covering Hurricane Milton in Florida. In 2011, he received the National Press Photographers Association’s highest award for teaching photojournalism, the Robin F. Garland Educator Award.  Jim and Carol now teach photography at The Paris (TN) Academy for the Arts, and at the Dixie Carter Performing Arts Center in Huntingdon, as well as weekly classes at the Huntingdon Middle School, and with young women at Youth Town of Tennessee, a residential treatment center. Jim covered combat in Iraq, the days immediately following the World Trade Center attack, the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, meetings with Fidel Castro, and many other national and international stories. Most recently, his photographs provided the visual content for the book, The Inklings of Oxford.