Japanese videographer Dai Sugano delves into the slums of India and brings back powerful images. These are the same slums in Slumdog Millionaire. Sugano’s work has been shown by the San Jose Mercury News and MSNBC.com. Take a look at this dramatic video about the poverty in Mumbia.

Left Behind by Dai Sugano

More about Dai Sugano

Dai Sugano is an Emmy Award winning photojournalist and senior multimedia editor at the San Jose Mercury News. He co-created MercuryNewsPhoto.com whose interactive story telling has been judged among the world’s best two years in a row in the Pictures of the Year International contest. Sugano covers wide range of assignments which have included: Poverty in India, Hmong refugees’ immigration to the United States; the California Recall; former Japanese Internment camp survivors and number of stories in politics. In 2008, “Uprooted,” which looks at displacement of a group of mobile home residents in Sunnyvale, won an Emmy Award in New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming: Documentaries. His other work have been nominated for an Emmy Award and a Pulitzer Prize in photography; and have received international and national recognitions.