Paul Kitagaki Jr. is documenting stories of survival in a book called, 'Behind Barbed Wire: Searching for Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II.'
Sacramento photographer honoring survivors of WWII Japanese-American internment camps Chris Thomas
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Sacramento Bee Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Paul Kitagaki Jr. and his family were forced to relocate to an internment camp during World War II. Now, he spends his time photographing some of the camp s original subjects or their direct descendants.
Kitagaki s documenting the stories of survival in a traveling exhibit and a book called, Behind Barbed Wire: Searching for Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Besides having the exhibit, I thought it was so important to have a book, said Kitagaki. You needed a tool or some kind of thing where people could share these stories.