About Tamio Wakayama
Lived 1941 – 2018 (aged 76–77). Tamio Wakayama was a Canadian artist and photographer.
Tamio Wakayama (1941–2018) was a Canadian photographer. He is known for his photographs of the American civil rights movement.
Wakayama was born on April 3, 1941 in Canada. A self-described Nisei, his family was relocated and incarcerated at the Tashme Incarceration Camp in British Columbia through the duration of World War II.
Wakayama died on March 23, 2018.
Wakayama's work was included in the 2025 exhibition Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 at the National Gallery of Art. His work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, and the National Gallery of Canada.
He is the subject of the documentary Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama by Cindy Mochizuki.
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Who was Tamio Wakayama?
Canadian artist (1941–2018)
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Tamio Wakayama was born in 1941.
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Tamio Wakayama died on 23 March 2018.
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Tamio Wakayama was an artist and photographer.
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Tamio Wakayama was Canadian.
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