“From a holiday photography campaign for Anzen Hardware in Little Tokyo. In early 1946, Tsutomu Maehara returned from being incarcerated during World War II at Tule Lake to open Anzen Hardware. Seventy-five years later, Anzen still serves Little Tokyo with both basic hardware and rare items from Japan. I helped with its holiday promotion as I felt this project was a way for me to help preserve a part of my community being destroyed by gentrification.”
