Ted Kurihara has a secret.
He tells me he can only convey it off the record. After a little coaxing, he changes his mind. “Ah, what the hell,” he laughs. “I’m retired anyway.”
First, some context. Kurihara, 75, is a Bay Area photographer. About a year ago, a friend of his helped him start his own professional website, because once the pandemic ends, Kurihara wants to seek out assignments again. Many of the photos on his website are previously unreleased. He captured the Delano grape strike, migrant workers in Modesto, unhoused folks from San Francisco’s Skid Row and the 1967 San Francisco Peace March.