Dai Sugano, staff photojournalist and senior multimedia editor, The Mercury News, for his Wordpress profile. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
Photo journalist

Dai Sugano

Dai Sugano is an Emmy Award-winning Bay Area News Group photojournalist and senior multimedia editor for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. Some of his projects include: “Drugging Our Kids,” an investigative project on the use of psychotropic drugs on California’s foster children; "Cost of Dying,” a series on end-of-life care issues in the U.S.; rising economic inequality in China; poverty in India; Hmong refugees who have immigrated to the U.S.; California’s 2003 gubernatorial recall; and “Torn Apart,” a 30-minute documentary on a Bay Area family divided by immigration rules. He is also a co-creator/co-editor of Viewfinder, the photo blog for the Bay Area News Group photojournalists. Follow Dai on Instagram.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Language: Japanese

Affiliation: National Press Photographers Association

Expertise: Breaking news, human-interest and investigative project photography

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