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EXHIBITS

2022 Infinite Night, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, Maui, HI (solo)

NightVisions 2022:Cultural Interpretations of the Night Sky, Flagstaff, AZ (group)

2021 Visions of the Santa Fe Trail at 200, Historic Santa Fe Foundation,
Santa Fe, NM (group)
2020 Sun, Moon, Sky, the cell, New York, NY (solo)
2019 NightVisions VII, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ (group)
2018 Grayscale: A Picture Show, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR (group)
Starlight, SHAPE Gallery, Shippensburg, PA (solo)
2017 NightVisions VI, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ (group)
2016 North Rim, Gould Library Athenaeum, Carleton College, Northfield, MN (solo)
100 Years of the National Park Service, Wisconsin Lutheran College,
Milwaukee, WI (group)
Natural Forces: The Wild, South Broadway Cultural Center,
Albuquerque, NM (group)
2015 Starlight, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ (solo)
Mountain: The Art of U.S. National Park Artists in Residence, Wisconsin
Lutheran College, Milwaukee, WI (group)
2014 NightVisions V, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ (group)

TRAVELING EXHIBIT: Moving Walls: Heart Mountain Barracks in the Bighorn Basin
2020 University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
2019 Military Intelligence Service Historic Learning Center, San Francisco, CA
Orange County Agricultural and Nikkei Heritage Museum, Fullerton, CA
2018 Park County Library, Cody, WY
2017 Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, Powell, WY

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

2020 Fort Union National Monument, NM
2019 Haleakala National Park, Maui, HI
2016 Chaco Culture National Historical Park, NM
2015 North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, AZ
2013 Rocky Mountain National Park, CO
Wupatki National Monument, AZ
2012 Chaco Culture National Historical Park, NM (visiting artist through special permit)
2011 South Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, AZ
Petrified Forest National Park, AZ

DOCUMENTARY PROJECTS

2017 Moving Walls: Preserving the Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps, book and film with Sharon Yamato. Through a National Park Service Japanese American Confinement Sites grant

LECTURES (BARRACKS PROJECT)

2021 Carleton College, MN (online)
2020 Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee, WI (online)
University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (online)
2019 San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
San Diego Public Library, San Diego, CA
Fullerton Arboretum/Orange County Agricultural and Nikkei History Museum, Fullerton, CA
Katy Geissert Civic Center Library, Torrance, CA
’Iolani School, Honolulu, HI
2018 Park County Library, Cody, WY
Park County Library, Powell, WY
International House, New York, panel discussion
Heart Mountain Pilgrimage, Cody, WY
Riverton Museum, Riverton, WY
Juniper Bar+Bistro, Cody, WY
International House, New York
Columbia University, New York, Seminar on Memory and Slavery
WNYC, New York public radio, live interview
The Cell, New York City, book signing
2017 Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, Powell, WY
Northwest College, Powell, WY

PERMANENT MUSEUM COLLECTION

America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American experience, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles.

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS – NIGHT SKY LANDSCAPES (SELECTED)

2022 Maui Arts and Cultural Center Infinite Night exhibit gallery talks
Haleakala National Park, HI, Night Sky Photography workshops
Flagstaff Star Party, Flagstaff, AZ, night sky photography workshop

2021 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York, 2 classes
Flagstaff Star Party, Flagstaff, AZ, workshop
2020 Bruce Museum, CT, presentation
Grand Canyon Field Institute, Grand Canyon National Park, AZ, workshop
Flagstaff Star Party, Flagstaff, AZ, workshop
Video collaboration with Fort Union National Monument, NM
2019 Haleakala National Park, Maui, HI, workshops
Flagstaff Star Party, Flagstaff, AZ, workshop
United Astronomy Clubs of New Jersey, Hope, NJ, presentation
Astronomical Society of Long Island, NY, presentation
2018 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York, class
International Dark-Sky Association Annual General Meeting, Snowbird, UT, presentation
Long Island Astrophotography Seminar, presentation
Flagstaff Star Party, Flagstaff, AZ, workshop
Summit Nature Photography Workshop, Jackson, WY
Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, workshop
Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, Night Sky Festival workshop
Adorama photo store, New York, workshop
Amateur Astronomers, Inc., Cranford, NJ, class
2017 Summit Nature Photography Workshop, Jackson, WY
Flagstaff Star Party, Flagstaff, AZ, workshop
Chaco Culture National Historical Park, NM, Astronomy Festival, workshop
Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute, RMNP, CO, workshop
NASA photography staff, consultant for 2017 total solar eclipse
Adorama photo store, New York, night sky and solar eclipse talks
Amateur Astronomers Association of New York, night sky, solar photography classes
2016 American Museum of Natural History, New York, lecture
Chaco Culture National Historical Park, NM, Night Sky Festival, workshop
Flagstaff Star Party, Flagstaff, AZ, workshop
Adorama photo store, New York, talk and workshop
Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, Night Sky Festival, workshop
Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, 2 artist talks
Amateur Astronomers Association of New York, 2 classes
Carleton College, MN, class, workshop
Sierra Club, New York City chapter, talk
Chaco Culture National Historical Park, NM, artist talks, workshop
Nokia Bell Labs, Crawford Hill, NJ, talk
Albuquerque, NM, on-location workshop
2015 Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, talk
Adorama photo store, New York, talk, workshop
Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA, talk
Flagstaff Dark Skies Coalition, Arizona, on-location workshop
Rocky Mountain National Park, Night Sky Festival, talk, workshop
Grand Canyon National Park, North Rim, Arizona, artist talks
2014 Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT, talk
Westport Astronomical Society, Westport, CT, talk
Flagstaff Dark Skies Coalition, Arizona, on-location workshop
2013 Astronomy Society of Long Island, NY
Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, artist talk, evening programs
Wupatki National Monument, AZ, artist talk, on-location workshop
2012 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York, class
2011 Grand Canyon National Park, South Rim, AZ, artist talk, evening program

PUBLICATIONS – NIGHT SKY LANDSCAPES

2022 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) (2)
2020 NASA APOD
2018 NASA APOD (4)
2017 NASA APOD (2)
Coverage of Aug. 21 total solar eclipse: Space.com; Agence France-Presse;
Wall Street Journal; CBS This Morning; NationalGeographic.com
2016 Space.com Image of the Day
National Geographic Travel, Archaeology Under the Stars
CBS Morning News, Why Grand Canyon’s new distinction is “life-changing” for
stargazers
Grand Prize, 2016 Air & Space / Smithsonian Magazine photo contest
National Park Service, Flagstaff Area National Monuments International Dark
Sky Park Designation Nomination Package
Pinyon Review, CO, Number 9: Chaco Culture
2015 NHK TV (Japan), Cosmic Front program
NASA APOD (2)
2014 Pinyon Review, CO, Number 6: Lunar Eclipse
Book cover, Time’s Body: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014, by Dabney
Stuart, Pinyon Publishing, CO
2013 Pinyon Review, CO, Number 4: Wupatki Sky Photographs
National Park Service, Chaco Culture National Historical Park International Dark
Sky Park application
2012 Pinyon Review, CO, Number 2: Chaco Sky Photographs

WORK HISTORY- PHOTOJOURNALISM

2003-2014 Staff photographer, Agence France-Presse, New York
1995-2003 Freelance editorial/commercial
1989-1995 New York Newsday
1981-1989 Staff and contract photographer for San Diego Union-Tribune; Los Angeles
Times; various San Diego newspapers

SELECTED IMAGES – PHOTOJOURNALISM

September 11, 2001 attack on World Trade Center, New York
U.S. presidential campaigns, election nights, inaugurations
Iraq War—2003, 2004
Haiti—2010 earthquake
Soccer World Cup—2010, South Africa
U.S. Space Shuttle program—2006-2011

GROUP EXHIBITS – PHOTOJOURNALISM

National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York (permanent exhibit)
2006 Five Years from Ground Zero: Through the Lens of the Photojournalist
University of Arkansas, Fort Smith, AR
2005 9/11 Gallery: Chronicling an Attack on America, Newseum, Washington, D.C (closed)

FILMOGRAPHY

2003 Eyewitness: Photojournalist Stan Honda, September 11, and the Japanese American
Experience, Director: John Isaki, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles

ARTIST BOOKS

2011 When I First Arrived in Baghdad, artist book by Fred Hagstrom, Carleton College, MN

FEATURED WORK: PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS

2002 Running Toward Danger: Stories Behind the Breaking News of 9/11, the Newseum,
Washington, D.C.
The American Spirit: Meeting the Challenge of September 11, Life Books
A Nation Challenged: A Visual History of 9/11 and its Aftermath, New York Times
1997 LIFE: A Year in Pictures, Time-Life Book

SELECTED AWARDS

2008 New York Press Photographers Association, 3rd place Editorial Illustration; 3rd place
Campaign
2007 New York Press Photographers Association, 1st place Feature
2006 New York Press Photographers Association, 1st place Editorial Illustration
2002 Asian American Journalists Association, photography
2001 Pictures of the Year International, 3rd place Spot News

ORGANIZATIONS

Amateur Astronomers Association of New York
International Dark-Sky Association
New York Day of Remembrance Committee
New York Japanese American Oral History Project
Japanese American Association
Asian American Journalists Association