Tamio Wakayama
1941-2018
SNCC Photographer Tamio Wakayama passed away on March 23, 2018 in Vancouver, B.C. Canada, at age 77. As a child he and his parents spent time in a World War II internment camp for Japanese-Canadians. He joined SNCC in 1963 and soon was working as an official SNCC staff photographer. After Freedom Summer, Tamio returned to Canada where he organized a Friends of SNCC Chapter. He was the author of six books, including Dream of Riches: The Japanese Canadians 1877-1977, a photographic reconstruction of the memory of the Nikkei community.
See Tamio speak about photographing during the civil rights movement
Read more about Tamio here
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