"Magic" Mike Kai Chen - National Geographic Explorer
Update: 2024-03-28
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Mike Kai Chen is a Taiwanese American documentary photographer and National Geographic Explorer based in San Francisco and Taipei. His work explores human connection and societal impact. This includes photographing climate change’s human impact for The New York Times, exploring Taiwanese and Asian American identity as personal stories, and embedding long-term with University of California San Francisco medical researchers to document the disproportionate human impact of the coronavirus. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and computer science and comes from a professional tech career as a solutions engineer at Box and software engineer at Apple. His passion for documentary photography stemmed from years of solo backpacking which grew into a full time career in photojournalism.
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