workshops/ field trips
KEVIN MIYAZAKI "My photographs act as evidence...." Kevin Miyazaki Though sought after as a free lance print photographer, Kevin Miyazaki's personal fine art work deals with issues of family history, memory and public/private space. Fast Food is a series that documents restaurants in states of abandonment and comments on the impact of corporate food design on the urban landscape. The second series, Camp Home documents the reuse of buildings from the Tule Lake World War II internment camp for Japanese Americans. The camp barracks were dispersed throughout the neighboring California landscape following the war, and in photographing their present usage, he explores his own family history as well as that of the current building owners. Work from Camp Home was recently exhibited at Seattle's Photographic Center Northwest and Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco. He has recently undertaken Within Reach, an examination of the environment at home, which includes overlooked objects and spaces of our everyday existence. Miyazaki began his photographic career as staff photographer at the Cincinnati Enquirer before leaving to become photo director at Cincinnati Magazine. In 2000, he returned to his hometown of Milwaukee to work at Milwaukee Magazine. He left to pursue free lance assignments which focus on portrait, food and travel. His images have been published in the New York Times, Travel & Leisure, Money, Conde Nast Traveler, BusinessWeek, Newsweek, Time, Midwest Living, Psychology Today, Food & Wine and Wall Street Journal. He also teaches part-time at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD). Additional images and commentary can be found at www.kevinmiyazaki.com. Kevin Miyazaki’s presentation is Oct. 21 at 7 p.m., (site TBD).
KEVIN MIYAZAKI
"My photographs act as evidence...." Kevin Miyazaki
Though sought after as a free lance print photographer, Kevin Miyazaki's
personal fine art work deals with issues of family history, memory and
public/private space. Fast Food is a series that documents restaurants in states of
abandonment and comments on the impact of corporate food design on the
urban landscape. The second series, Camp Home documents the reuse of
buildings from the Tule Lake World War II internment camp for Japanese
Americans. The camp barracks were dispersed throughout the neighboring
California landscape following the war, and in photographing their present
usage, he explores his own family history as well as that of the current building
owners. Work from Camp Home was recently exhibited at Seattle's
Photographic Center Northwest and Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco. He
has recently undertaken Within Reach, an examination of the environment at
home, which includes overlooked objects and spaces of our everyday existence.
Miyazaki began his photographic career as staff photographer at the Cincinnati
Enquirer before leaving to become photo director at Cincinnati Magazine. In
2000, he returned to his hometown of Milwaukee to work at Milwaukee
Magazine. He left to pursue free lance assignments which focus on portrait,
food and travel. His images have been published in the New York Times,
Travel & Leisure, Money, Conde Nast Traveler, BusinessWeek, Newsweek,
Time, Midwest Living, Psychology Today, Food & Wine and Wall Street
Journal. He also teaches part-time at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
(MIAD).
Additional images and commentary can be found at www.kevinmiyazaki.com.
Kevin Miyazaki’s presentation is Oct. 21 at 7 p.m., (site TBD).