The Role of Photography in the Pilgrimage Experience
7 – 8:30PM
A panel and discussion on the role of photography — past, present, and future — in the camp pilgrimage experience — how historical images and contemporary photos of the camps and their survivors/descendants help us navigate and process our understanding (including all the things we will never know) of the World War II Japanese American incarceration experience. Documentary photographer Haruka Sakaguchi will discuss her in-progress project Campu: An American Story, which showcases portraits and testimonies of survivors and their descendants at their respective camps. Photographers Sandy Sugawara and Catiana Garcia-Kilroy will present their recently published photography book Show Me the Way To Go To Home, which features photographs of the 10 incarceration camps as they stand today. And author Jeffrey Yamaguchi will share an in-progress project about the photography of his Grandfather, Fred Yamaguchi, who ran the Rohwer Photo Studio at the Rohwer concentration camp.
VIRTUAL EVENT: Thursday, October 26 — 7 pm ET / 4 pm PT
Part of JAMP’s 2023 Tadaima Program