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This exhibition celebrates wild birds through the works of two Nikkei artists—photographer Roy Hamaguchi and woodcarver Tad Yesaki. A full-colour book about the artists and their art, written by Donna Yoshitake Wuest, featuring photographs by Hamaguchi and the graphic design by Lotus Miyashita, will accompany the exhibition.

 

Tad Yesaki began, as a youngster in the mid-1940s, carving decoys for duck hunting in Picture Butte, Alberta, where his family relocated during the internment years. As his appreciation for the beauty of birds emerged, Yesaki’s craft of carving decoys evolved to the art of carving decorative birds. He has exhibited his carvings in shows and competitions throughout BC’s Lower Mainland and across Canada and the United States. He’s won numerous prizes, including two firsts at the Canadian National Wildfowl Carving Championship in Kitchener, Ontario in 2008.

 

Roy Hamaguchi’s interest in photography also began in the mid-1940s at Minto Mine, near Lillooet, where his family had evacuated to during WWII. His adventures in photography have taken him from the Canadian Arctic to the Serengeti in Africa to Asia, yet some of his favourite locations are right here in beautiful British Columbia. Hamaguchi’s photographs have been featured across Canada, including at the 1986 International Ornithological Conference in Ottawa and in a permanent exhibition of his bald eagle photographs at the Brackendale Art Gallery. His photographs have appeared in publications such as Marsh Notes, Canadian Geographic, Equinox, Nature Canada, Time-Life, and Beautiful British Columbia, and on a Canada Post stamp.