Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama

Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama will be part of Doxa Documentary Film Festival for its world premiere. It will be screening at Cinematheque on May 5th, 2024 at 4:15pm and at Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema on May 9th at 12:30pm. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit here.

Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama tells the epic journey of the late Japanese Canadian photographer Tamio Wakayama who decides to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the deep south during the 1960’s American civil rights movement. Learning the art of dark room photography along the way, this transformative moment in time allows him to confront his own identity and return ‘home’ to the west coast of Vancouver to begin a body of photographic work that continues to celebrate, re-present and document the spirit of Japanese Canadians who resided in the former Paueru Gai/Powell Street neighborhoods.