Even though we published photographs of the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage a few days ago, we’re also publishing our “official” photo essay from the event, featuring the stunning photographs by professional photographers Geri Ferguson and Mark Kirchner.
Mark and Geri have generously provided photographs of the Manzanar Pilgrimage to us for several years now and, as they are each and every year, this year’s photographs are absolutely gorgeous and they capture the event like no one else can.
We hope you enjoy them as much as we do!
LEAD PHOTO: Crowd shot of the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, April 29, 2023, Manzanar National Historic Site.. Photo: Geri Ferguson/Manzanar Committee.
54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
33 photos by Geri Ferguson. ©2023 Manzanar Committee. All rights reserved. Duplication prohibited without permission. Click on any photo to view a larger image and to scroll through the gallery.
Banners representing the ten American concentraion camps and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battallion,442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service.
Ken Koshio
Manzanar Committee’s Brian Niiya (left) and Bruce Embrey (right)
Los Manzaneros
Crowd shot during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Crowd shot during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Banners representing the ten American concenration camps, and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service.
Banners representing the ten American concenration camps, and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service.
Banners representing the ten American concenration camps, and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service.
Banners representing the ten American concenration camps, and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service.
Banners representing the ten American concenration camps, and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service.
Banners representing the ten American concenration camps, and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service.
Banners representing the ten American concenration camps,aBanners representing the ten American concenration camps, and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service. and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battallion/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service.
Ken Koshio
Alisa Lynch Broch, Manzanar National Historic Site
Banners representing the ten American concenration camps, and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service.
Banners representing the ten American concenration camps, and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service.
Banners representing the ten American concenration camps, and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service.
Interfaith service during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith service during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith service during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Interfaith service during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Participants often offer flowers at the I Rei To (soul consoling tower) at the Manzanar cemetary during the traditional interfaith service.
Ken Koshio (left) and Bruce Embrey (right)
54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
66 photos by Mark Kirchner. ©2023 Manzanar Committee. All rights reserved. Duplication prohibited without permission. Click on any photo to view a larger image and to scroll through the gallery.
Participants often offer flowers at the I Rei To (soul consoling tower) at the Manzanar cemetary during the traditional interfaith service.
Dr. Arthur A. Hansen (left) and Alisa Lynch Broch (right)
Kerry Cababa Ileft) and Bruce Embrey (right)
Origami cranes left at the I Rei To (soul consoling tower) at the Manzanar cemetery.
Jenni Kuida (left) and Steve Nagano (right)
Los Manzaneros
Kerry Cababa (left) and David Fujioka (right)
Banners representing the ten American concenration camps, and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service.
Bruce Embrey (left) with former Tule Lake incarceree Kyoko Oda (right)
Participants often offer flowers at the I Rei To (soul consoling tower) at the Manzanar cemetary during the traditional interfaith service.
UCLA Kyodo Taiko
UCLA Kyodo Taiko
UCLA Kyodo Taiko
UCLA Kyodo Taiko
Ken Koshio
Ken Koshio
UCLA Kyodo Taiko
Maiya Kuida Osumi
Brenda Ling, Superintendent, Manzanar National Historic Site
Bruce Embrey, Co-Chair, Manzanar Committee
Jenni Kuida
Jeremiah Joseph, Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation
Cheryl Tsuyuki
Cheryl Tsuyuki
James Matsuoka
Los Manzaneros
Manjusha Kulkarni, Executive Director of the AAPI Equity Alliance and co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate.
Dr. Arthur A. Hansen (left) with Monica Embrey (right)
Dr. Arthur A. Hansen
Jonathan Lee, Manzanar Committee
UCLA Kyodo Taiko
UCLA Kyodo Taiko
Dreisen Heath, Why We Can’t Wait Coalition
Dreisen Heath, Why We Can’t Wait Coalition
Sarah Ando, President, UCSD Nikkei Student Union
Members of the Council on American Islamic Relations-Greater Los Angeles chapter have been attending the Manzanar Pilgrimage since 2002.
Banners representing the ten American concenration camps, and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service.
Banners representing the ten American concenration camps, and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service.
Banners representing the ten American concenration camps, and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service.
Banners representing the ten American concenration camps, and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service.
Banners representing the ten American concenration camps, and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service.
Banners representing the ten American concenration camps, and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service.
Banners representing the ten American concenration camps, and other confinement sites, along with the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team/Military Intelligence Service.
The interfaith service during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage. That’s former incarceree Mo Nishida.
Origami cranes left at the I Rei To (soul consoling tower) at the Manzanar cemetery.
The interfaith service during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
The interfaith service during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
The interfaith service during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
The interfaith service during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
The interfaith service during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Origami cranes left at the I Rei To (soul consoling tower) at the Manzanar cemetery.
Origami cranes left at the I Rei To (soul consoling tower) at the Manzanar cemetery.
Origami cranes left at the I Rei To (soul consoling tower) at the Manzanar cemetary.
The interfaith service during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage. That’s former incarceree Mo Nishida (seated in chair).
The interfaith service during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
The interfaith service during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
The interfaith service during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
The interfaith service during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
The interfaith service during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
The interfaith service during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
The interfaith service during the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Ondo dancing at the conclusion of the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Ondo dancing at the conclusion of the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Ondo dancing at the conclusion of the 54th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Origami cranes left at the I Rei To (soul consoling tower) at the Manzanar cemetery.
Origami cranes left at the I Rei To (soul consoling tower) at the Manzanar cemetery.
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