Jerry Takigawa

Shadows from the Past: Sansei Artists and the American Concentration Camps

Website:

http://takigawaphoto.com 
http://takigawadesign.com 

Biography:

Jerry Takigawa’s photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally including New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA; Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA; SF Museum of Craft and Design, SF; Candela Books + Gallery, Richmond, VA; The light Factory, Charlotte, NC; LA Center of Photography, LA, CA; Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone, NC; Providence Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI; Sonoma Valley Museum of Art; Site Brooklyn, NY; Atlanta Photography Group, GA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Corden Potts, SF; Serre dei Giardini Margherita, Bologna, IT; Casa dell’Architettura, Rome, IT; Atelier de gravure Zec, Paris, FR; Serra dei Giardini, Venice, IT; Cortona on the Move, Cortona, IT; and Vkhutemas Gallery, Rojdestvenka, Moscow. Takigawa studied photography with Don Worth at San Francisco State University and received a BFA with an emphasis in painting. He has been the recipient of a variety of photographic honors and awards including the Imogen Cunningham Award; nominated for the Santa Fe Prize; twice nominated for the Prix Pictet; Critical Mass Top 50; the Clarence John Laughlin Award; LensCulture, Fine Art Photography Awards Finalist; NY Center for Photographic Art, Humans, First Place, CENTER Awards, Curator’s Choice—First Place; and the Rhonda Wilson Award. Takigawa lives and works in Carmel Valley, CA. 

Artist Statement:

Balancing Cultures photographic series highlights the racism deeply woven into the fabric of our society. A recent discovery of family photographs compelled me to express the shame and loss suffered by my family in the WWII American concentration camps. These images add humanity to the historical record – facts require testimony to be remembered. I seek to give voice to what I believe were feelings my family suppressed; reminding us that hysteria, racism, and economic exploitation are still a force in our country today. The camps designed to assuage these reactions became a shadow legacy for an entire Japanese American community. Silence sanctions—documentation is resistance. 

 


EO 9066, 2016 

Image Specifications: all prints are pigment prints on rag paper, and may be ordered by size 
Standard Image Size Prints: H: 19” x 13.25”  /  Framed Dimension: 24.5” x 18.75” x 1.25” 
Medium Image Size Prints: 17” x 22”  /  Framed Dimension: 24” x 31” x 1.5” 
Large Image Size Prints: 30” x 21”  /  Framed Dimension: 38” x 30” x 1.5” 

 

 

  
Possession of Navigational Charts of Monterey Bay, 2016 

 

 


This World, February 8, 1942, 2016 

 

 

 


Yes. Yes., 2016 

 

 


Like Goes with Like, 2019 

 

 


Citizen’s Indefinite Leave, 2017 

 

 

 


A Jap’s a Jap 


 

 

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