Events

Speaking Truth to Power: An Evening with Photographer Taro Yamasaki

May 13, 2025

5 - 8 pm

Host: TC AAPI

Location:  Dennos Museum Center, Milliken Auditorium

Cost: Free Entry

You’re invited to Traverse City’s 4th annual Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month celebration.

Join TC AAPI-owned restaurants at 5pm for free light bites, followed by a 6 pm conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Taro Yamasaki. Sakura Takano, CEO of Rotary Charities of Traverse City, will be in conversation with Yamasaki about his 45+ year career telling the devastating human stories of communities ravaged by war, disease, natural disasters, and the cruelty of tyrants. In 2023, 109 of these photographs were acquired by the Library of Congress for its permanent collection. Yamasaki has also photographed architecture throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia (resulting in two folio size books) and has spent 3 semesters teaching documentary photography at the University of Michigan School of Art and Design (now the Penny Stamps School of Art and Design), the last two as the “Distinguished Visiting Artist in Residence.” 

Event is capped at 250 attendees. Register for free tickets.