Kenneth Jarecke (born 1963) is an American photojournalist, author, editor, and war correspondent. He has worked in more than 80 countries and has been featured in LIFE magazine, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, and others. He is a founding member of Contact Press Images. He is notable for taking the famous photograph of a burnt Iraqi soldier that was published in The Observer, March 10, 1991. He currently resides on a ranch in Montana where he has raised his four children with his wife, a Syrian immigrant and business woman, Souad.

Jarecke was a White House photographer in the Ronald Reagan years. He covered the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, the first Gulf War, and nine Olympic Games since 1988.

His first discovery of photography was at age 15. He started using his father’s 35 mm camera and quit football to make more time for the new pursuit. He graduated from William Jennings Bryan Senior High in 1981 at age 18. He had his first photo published that year. He then attended University of Nebraska Omaha, which is where he met his future wife, Souad.

Born 1963, in Fairfax, Missouri, Jarecke grew up the eldest of four, son to Melissa and Bernard Jarecke. He spent the majority his childhood and teen years in Nebraska.