A photography exhibit depicting life in a 1940s Japanese American internment camp is currently on display at the William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A photography exhibit depicting life in a 1940s Japanese American internment camp is currently on display at the William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In 1942, Bill Manbo and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain, Wyo. While there, Manbo documented both the bleakness and beauty of his surroundings, capturing community celebrations and his family's struggle to maintain a normal life under the harsh conditions of racial imprisonment.
Manbo’s Kodachrome photographs are on display at the Friday Center until Dec. 14. They also appear in the book “Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II” from UNC Press. The book, edited by Eric L. Muller, Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor in Jurisprudence and Ethics at the UNC School of Law and director of the UNC Center for Faculty Excellence, includes essays from renowned scholars and a former Heart Mountain detainee.
For more information about the exhibit, please contact the Friday Center at (919) 962-3000 or ConferenceCenter@unc.edu.
Friday Center contact: Bill Ferris, (919) 962-2595, bferris@email.unc.edu