08 January 2020
Paul Kitagaki Jr. photographed the survivors of WWII internment camps
Paul Kitagaki Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning Sacramento Bee photographer, tells the personal stories of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Inspired by a Dorothea Lange photograph of his parents’ and grandparents’ internment, he embarked on a 10-year pilgrimage, photographing survivors of the California camps and seeking to mirror pictures taken during World War II.