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Faces of a Generation: Brian Y. Sato on Photographing the Nisei in Hawai'i
Many of the most compelling photographs in Brian Y. Sato's collection of portraits were almost never taken.
His subjects were the Nisei -- second-generation Japanese Americans, in Hawai'i. The majority were in their eighties. And more than a few of them did not want to be photographed.
"On many occasions I got the facetious remark, 'I going broke da camera if you take my pikcha,'" Sato recalls.
"At times, they might have said that because they were actually flattered that someone wanted to photograph them, and made the statement to sort of camouflage that flattery," says Sato. "But on man…
