Seen and Unseen

Available July 2026 – pre-order now!

Photographers reveal the heart and injustice of Japanese American incarceration.

This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration captured by three photographers – Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams – along with firsthand accounts of this grave moment in history.

Three months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the incarceration of all Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast of the United States. Families, teachers, farm workers – all were ordered to leave behind their homes, their businesses, and everything they owned. Japanese and Japanese Americans were forced to live under hostile conditions in incarceration camps, their futures uncertain.

In Seen and Unseen, Elizabeth Partridge and Lauren Tamaki weave together these photographers’ images, firsthand accounts, and stunning original art to examine the history, heartbreak, and injustice of the Japanese American incarceration.

ISBN 9781797236162

132 pages, 254 x 203 mm