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EPISODE · Dec 11, 2025 · 19 MIN

If you had one day to pack up your life, what would you bring?

from Q with Tom Power

Canadian photographer Kayla Isomura has a question for you: if you were forced to quickly leave your home with only one day’s notice, what would you bring with you? That’s the question at the heart of their powerful photography series “The Suitcase Project.” Kayla is a fourth-generation Japanese Canadian whose ancestors, like so many other Japanese Canadian families, were forcibly removed from their homes during the Second World War and relocated to internment camps. For “The Suitcase Project,” Kayla asked more than 80 other fourth and fifth generation Japanese North Americans to pack up their belongings on short notice, and then shot portraits of them with their suitcases. Kayla joins Tom Power to talk about their family history, and how making “The Suitcase Project” helped them connect with their cultural identity.

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