Join us for a powerful conversation with Judy Richardson and Masaru Edmund Nakawatase, former staff organizers with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), alongside community advocate Kiyoko Judy Hanazawa and moderated by Dr. Desirée Valadares, Assistant Professor and affiliated faculty in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama, this panel explores documentary photography as a tool for social critique and cultural witnessing.

The discussion traces a lineage of socially engaged photography—from Depression-era America and the work of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange to Tamio Wakayama’s photographic documentation of Japanese Canadian internment and racial injustice. Centering Wakayama’s work, panelists examine intersections between the Japanese Canadian Redress Movement and the US Civil Rights Movement, highlighting photography’s role in preserving memory, expressing resilience and documenting social struggle.

Through a transnational lens, the panel considers how visual histories of resistance continue to inform movements for rights and redress and how past struggles shape contemporary activism and social justice efforts.

This talk is free for Experiences and Artist Circle Members and ticketed at the reduced price of $5 for Ideas Members and $10 for Access Pass Holders. For non-members, the talk will be $10 in addition to the cost of Gallery admission. 

Registration is required. Space is limited. Seating is first come, first served. Priority will be given to those who register. Doors will open at 3 PM.