Reel Justice Film Series: 'Toyo's Camera'

This is a film of Japanese American history during World War II. While bringing in cameras to internment camps was prohibited, one photographer smuggled in his own camera lens and built a camera to take photographs of life behind barbed wire. That man was photographer Toyo Miyatake, who captured the devastating conditions during World War II, when Japanese Americans could not belong to Japan or America. The film, directed by Jyunichi Suzuki, includes more than 500 photographs taken by Miyatake and two photographers with whom he was friends, Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. World-renowned Grammy and Golden Globe Award-winning artist Kitaro couples Miyatake’s photographs with euphonious music.

Admission is free.