She began her career at The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass., then moved to The Boston Globe, where she was a staff photographer for seven years. She was a finalist in 1993 for the Pulitzer Prize in feature photography, for her coverage of the famine in Somalia. She was a member of Contact Press Images from 1995 to 2008. Ms. Kim said she is proudest of her documentation of South Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army in World War II.