Manzanar National Historic Site:
This series of photos shows the stark realities of Japanese-American Internment during WWII. Being prisoners in their own country in a area of California that is hostile and beautiful.
Geta, the traditional Japanese shoes as show in a dormitory where families would live together.
Out the window looking toward the Eastern Sierras with Mt. Williamson in the distance.
A replica of Toyo Miyatake’s box camera, having been a working photographer for 20 plus years he was able to build a camera and documented life in Manzanar.
A simple pleasure provided, but lives and business destroyed.
A watchtower overlooking Manzanar, showing that this very much was a forced internment.