Artist Talk and Tour: Echoes Unearthed at Chandler Museum

AZPA members will experience a private talk and tour with Dean Terasaki and his important and moving work Echoes Unearthed.

Fine Art Photographer and AZPA Member, Dean Terasaki will share his deeply personal exhibition, Echoes Unearthed at Chandler Museum. The exhibition is based on an archive of WWII-era letters written by Japanese Americans incarcerated in the War Relocation Authority camps. The letters were recovered from the walls of a former Ph*rm*cy, owned by his uncles. Dean will begin the evening with an artist talk followed by a tour of his work - photographs of the historical sites where he reunited the letters with the locations where they were written.

Echoes Unearthed is a selection from Dean’s series, exploring the layers of loss experienced by the Japanese American community during WWII and its lingering effects on today’s descendants.

Meeting location is at the front of the museum at 5:45PM, please be prompt.

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Images Above: Left: Dean Terasaki (his portrait), © Dean Terasaki, Right: I need four small ones, © Dean Terasaki

Dean's Bio

I am sansei. In my culture that means my grandparents all immigrated to the United States from Japan. As a child, I discovered a box filled with photographs and medals from my father’s WWII service. He served in combat in the U.S. Army’s much decorated, all Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team. That box was the seed of my interest in the relationships between photography, memory, and the way that race, culture and society manifest themselves in the landscape.

Embarked on studies of economics in college and searching for my future, I hopped freight trains, drove taxicabs, and I realized that I seemed to carry a camera everywhere. In 1978, I earned a BFA from the University of Colorado and, in 1985, a MFA in photography from Arizona State University. After a brief move to New York City, I returned to Phoenix where, for 33 years, I taught photography and digital imaging at Glendale Community College. I retired from teaching in 2020.

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