from Camp Home A series on former Japanese-American Internment Barracks
Photograph (c)Kevin Mitazaki /All Rights Reserved
from Camp Home A series on former Japanese-American Internment Barracks
Photograph (c)Kevin Mitazaki /All Rights Reserved
from Camp Home A series on former Japanese-American Internment Barracks
Photograph (c)Kevin Mitazaki /All Rights Reserved
from Camp Home A series on former Japanese-American Internment Barracks
Photograph (c)Kevin Mitazaki /All Rights Reserved
from Camp Home A series on former Japanese-American Internment Barracks
Photograph (c)Kevin Mitazaki /All Rights Reserved
from Camp Home A series on former Japanese-American Internment Barracks
Photograph (c)Kevin Mitazaki /All Rights Reserved
Photographer and part-time educator, Kevin Miyazaki, has created THE BIG LIST [567 & GROWING] OF PHOTOGRAPHER AND PHOTO INDUSTRY INTERVIEWS on MIAD-FA382. It's a fantastic Resource - a must-see-and-read for anyone interested in Photography!
You can read HOME: KNOWN AND UNKNOWN by curator Karin Higa, Japanese American National Museum, about Miyazaki's series Camp Home (on his website under Personal/Camp Home). He has been documenting the reuse of buildings from the * Tule Lake Internment Camp, where his father's family was placed during World War II. Because photography was forbidden by internees, very few photographs of the home-life were made by the families. "My pictures act as evidence, though many years later, of a domestication rarely recorded during the initial life of the structures."Kevin Miyazaki: Website
The Big List: MIAD-FA382
The Big List: MIAD-FA382
* Tule Lake was the largest and most controversial of the ten War Relocation Authority WRA camps used to carry out the government’s system of exclusion and detention of persons of Japanese descent, mandated by Executive Order 9066. Two-thirds of the 120,000 persons of Japanese descent incarcerated in American concentration camps were American citizens, an act that culminated decades of anti-Japanese violence, discrimination and propaganda. Read more...
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