Asahi Shimbun (Japan)
I have been a reporting assistant for the Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan’s largest daily newspapers, since October 2017. Based in the San Francisco bureau, I cover the American tech industry (aka Big Tech) and major news in the West and the Pacific. Since I’ve been with the paper, I’ve covered topics as diverse as Cambridge Analytica, Alex Jones showing up at Congress to confront Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, the Uber and Lyft IPOs, Apple and the US-China trade war, Harvey Weinstein and MeToo, California’s major wildfires in 2017 and 2018, Kilauea erupting (Hawaii), migration at the US-Mexico border and the 2018 Midterm election. All of my photos were unpublished, unless otherwise noted or as shown by tear-sheets/screenshots.
Big Tech
US Midterms November 8, 2018
Coverage of the Arizona Senate campaign to replace Sen. Jeff Flake’s seat, which he vacated. Democrat Kirsten Sinema narrowly beat Republican Martha McSally after an extremely close race that resulted in a days-long ballot counting process that extended past election night. Two of the portraits that I shot in Arizona that day were featured in the Asahi Shimbun’s print edition the next day. Other photos that I shot that day were not published.
US-Mexico Border
In the fall of 2018, a caravan of migrants from Central America traveled through Mexico to get seek asylum in the United States. A few thousand people were expected to arrive at the US border. Many ended up staying in Mexico with work permits issued by the Mexican government, and many migrants stayed in make-shift shelters in Tijuana until their fates could be decided. We talked to one man staying at a shelter for migrants who was fleeing extortion by gangs. Even though he had a job back home as a private security guard, he felt like his life was in danger and decided to join the caravan so he could settle in a better place, find work and eventually bring the rest of his family — whether to the US or Canada or another country that would welcome them. These are some of the photos I shot over the course of two days in November 2018. These photos were unpublished.
