49th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage

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Shortly after the 49th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage on April 28, 2018, we published photographs from that event and the 2018 Manzanar At Dusk program that same evening. But here is our official photo essay from the Pilgrimage featuring photographs by professional photographers Geri Ferguson and Mark Kirchner. They have been shooting photos at Manzanar for many years now and not just during the annual Pilgrimage.

Mark and Geri’s photos are absolutely stunning. They both have incredible eyes and an artistic flare that show in each of their photos. We hope you enjoy them.

LEAD PHOTO: Banners representing the ten World War II American concentration camps during the 49th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage on Saturday, April 28, 2018 at the Manzanar National Historic Site. Photo: Geri Ferguson/Manzanar Committee.

From left: Miro Koshio, Ken Koshio, Bruce Embrey

442nd RCT veteran Lawson Sakai (left)

Ken Tang

Members of the Venice Japanese American Memorial Monument Foundation

Fred Bradford (foreground) Kerry Cababa (background)

Bill Michael

Hank Umemoto (right)

Wilbur Sato (left)

Hank Umemoto (background)

Sound engineers Glenn Suravech (left) and Yoshi Irie (right)

Kerry Cababa

Wilbur Sato

Bruce Embrey with JANM President/CEO Anne Burroughs

UCLA Kyodo Taiko

From left: Kerry Cababa, Lawson Sakai, Ken Tang

Pat Sakamoto

Lawson Sakai

Bernadette Johnson, Superintendent, Manzanar National Historic Site

Kathy Bancroft, Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation

Karen Umemoto, Director, UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Lauren Matsumoto, UCSD Nikkei Student Union

Yusra Khafagi, CAIR, Greater Los Angeles Chapter

Anne Burroughs, President/CEO, JANM

Miro Koshio

Ken Koshio

Miro Koshio

Ken Koshio

Kathy Bancroft (left) and Bruce Embrey (right)

Former Manzanar incarceree Mas Okui (standing)

Hanako Wakatsuki (center) Chief of Interpretation, Minidoka National Historic Site

Bruce Embrey

Bruce Embrey (left) and Wilbur Sato (right), recipient of the 2019 Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award

Wilbur Sato (right), recipient of the 2019 Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award

Bruce Embrey (left) and Wilbur Sato (right), recipient of the 2019 Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award

Jenny Chomori

Manzanar Committee Co-Chair Jenny Chomori (center) with two of the winners of our Third Annual Student Awards. Emily Ota (left) and Sara Omura (right)

Monica Embrey

Lawson Sakai

Melany Okafuji Lucia

From left: Melany Okafuji Lucia, Ken Tang and Richard Katsuda

Lawson Sakai

David Fujioka

Janet Fujii

Banners representing the ten World War II American concentration camps and the 100th Battalion/442nd RCT/MIS

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