We’re rather late with photos from professional photographers Mark Kirchner and Geri Ferguson, but here’s our official photo essay from the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, held on Saturday, April 30, 2016, at the Manzanar National Historic Site.
Our thanks to Mark and Geri for once again providing us with their wonderful photographs. We deeply appreciate their amazing skill, outstanding work, dedication and generosity, and we hope you do, too!
LEAD PHOTO: Banners representing the ten American concentration camps in which Japanese Americans were unjustly incarcerated during World War II, the Crystal City Internment Camp and the 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service are shown here in front of the cemetery at the Manzanar National Historic Site during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage on April 30, 2016. Photo: Mark Kirchner/Manzanar Committee.
47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage – Photographs by Mark Kirchner and Geri Ferguson
214 photos by Mark Kirchner and Geri Ferguson; ©2016 Manzanar Committee. All rights reserved. Click on any photo to view a larger image, and to scroll/click through the gallery.
Maytha Alhassen (left), one of the speakers during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage with Alisa Lynch, Chief of Interpretation, Manzanar National Historic SIte (right). Background left is keynote speaker, Dr. Cathy Irwin.
UCLA Kyodo Taiko
UCLA Kyodo Taiko
UCLA Kyodo Taiko
UCLA Kyodo Taiko
UCLA Kyodo Taiko
UCLA Kyodo Taiko
UCLA Kyodo Taiko
UCLA Kyodo Taiko
UCLA Kyodo Taiko
UCLA Kyodo Taiko
UCLA Kyodo Taiko
UCLA Kyodo Taiko members waiting for their turn on the drums.
UCLA Kyodo Taiko
Former Heart Mountain incarceree Dale Kunitomi
Former Manzanar incarceree Mo NIshida (center) with photographer Mark Kirchner (right). That’s NCRR member Richard Katsuda in the background.
Charlotte Bacoch, Elder, Big PIne Paiute Tribe of the Owens Valley. welcomed Pilgrimage participants to their ancestral lands.
Charlotte Bacoch, Elder, Big PIne Paiute Tribe of the Owens Valley. welcomed Pilgrimage participants to their ancestral lands.
Manzanar National Historic Site Superintendent Bernadette Johnson
Manzanar National Historic SIte Superintendent Bernadette Johnson
Cousul General of Japan (San Francisco) Jun Yamada
Cousul General of Japan (San Francisco) Jun Yamada
Craig Ishii was the master of ceremonies for the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Chair, inyo County Board of Supervisors Jeff Griffiths
Chair, inyo County Board of Supervisors Jeff Griffiths
UCSD Nikkei Student Union President Rena Ogino
UCSD Nikkei Student Union President Rena Ogino
Manzanar Committee member Gann Matsuda
Former Inyo County Supervisor Bob Gracey
Former Inyo County Superviros Bob Bracey (second from left) being escorted to the stage to receive the 2016 Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award.
Former Inyo County Superviros Bob Bracey (second from left) received the 2016 Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award.
Former Inyo County Superviros Bob Bracey (center) received the 2016 Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award.
Former Inyo County Superviros Bob Bracey (center) received the 2016 Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award.
Master of Ceremonies Craig Ishii with Manzanar Committee Co-Chair Bruce Embrey (background)
Master of Ceremonies Craig Ishii with Manzanar Committee Co-Chair Bruce Embrey (background)
Daion Taiko from Orange County Buddhist Church
Daion Taiko from Orange County Buddhist Church
Daion Taiko from Orange County Buddhist Church
Keynote speaker Dr. Cathy Irwin
Keynote speaker Dr. Cathy Irwin
NCRR’s Kathy Masaoka and Wilbur Sato recite a poem during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Featured speaker Maytha Alhassen
Featured speaker Maytha Alhassen
Monica Mariko Embrey with her father, Manzanar Committee Co-Chair Bruce Embrey
Monica Embrey
Professor Emeritus of History Dr. Donald T. Hata, California State University, Dominguez Hills
David Fujioka (left) and Tomoko Brooks (right)
Tomoko Brooks (left) and Joyce Okazaki (right)
Michael Okamura (left) and Hatsuko Mary Higuchi (right)
Ruth Beadles (left) and David Goto (right)
Roll Call of the Camps
Roll Call of the Camps
Roll Call of the Camps
Roll Call of the Camps
Roll Call of the Camps
Roll Call of the Camps
Roll Call of the Camps
Roll Call of the Camps
Roll Call of the Camps
Roll Call of the Camps
Roll Call of the Camps
Interfaith service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Interfaith service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith Service during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Ondo dancing during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage. Manzanar Committee Co-Chair Kerry Cababa is shown in this photo.
Ondo dancing during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Ondo dancing during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Ondo dancing during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Ondo dancing during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Ondo dancing during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Ondo dancing during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Ondo dancing during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Ondo dancing during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
Ondo dancing during the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
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Thank you, Mark & Gerry. You sure took some beautiful photos.
Sorry, I misspelled Geri’s name. My apologies.
Thank you for the beautiful photo essay. Thank you Kerry for your hard work and for being my new friend. We brought wonderful memories of Manzanar and your dedication back to Wyoming. Love from Riverton, Wyoming, from Doug and Sheila Newlin