Speaking Truth to Power: An Evening with Photographer Taro Yamasaki

Registration is required - Click here to reserve your FREE tickets!

5:00 - 6:00 PM  -  Appetizers in the museum Sculpture Court from local AAPI owned restaurants
6:00 - 8:00 PM  -  Event in Milliken with Taro Yamasaki

Join us for an evening event with Taro Yamasaki, a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist. He has completed many hundreds of assignments for national magazines, newspapers and nonprofit journals, in 48 states and in numerous countries around the world.

Yamasaki has spent much of his 45+ year career telling the devastating human stories of innocents ravaged by war, disease, natural disasters, and the cruelty of tyrants. In 2023, 109 of these photographs were acquired by the Library of Congress for its permanent collection.

Yamasaki has also photographed architecture throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia (resulting in two folio size books) and has spent 3 semesters teaching documentary photography at the University of Michigan School of Art and Design (now the Penny Stamps School of Art and Design), the last two as the "Distinguished Visiting Artist in Residence." 

Event is free and open to the public. It will contain depictions of adults and children who experienced trauma or loss in a war zone. 

Limit 250. Please RSVP.

This program is made possible with support from Northern Michigan E3, Northwestern Michigan College Library and the DEIB Advisory Council, the Traverse City Human Rights Commission, and Oryana Community Co-op, the Dennos Museum Center,  and the Traverse Area District Library.

Image Caption: A 4th grade science class at the Osama El Naggar School in the Gaza city, Khan Yunus, November, 2005.  A student successfully performs an experiment and is cheered by his classmates.  A glass of water topped by a piece of paper is inverted.  Air pressure holds the paper in place and keeps the water from pouring out of the glass, showing that the air pressure holding the paper up is greater than the weight  of the water pushing the paper down. Almost all the Palestinian schools in Khan Yunus have been destroyed lay Israeli shelling and bombing since October 7, 2023.