Taro Yamasaki

Taro Yamasaki is a photojournalist whose first job after college was an assistant kindergarten teacher at the Grand Street Settlement on New York’s Lower East Side.  While at the Detroit Free Press he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for Feature Photography for a weeklong series he reported, wrote, and photographed on life in the world’s largest maximum-security prison.  For the last 20 years Yamasaki has been traveling throughout the United Sates and the world photographing in-depth human-interest stories for magazines.  Often his subjects have been children, living with the threats of poverty, disease, natural disasters, and armed conflict.

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