This 14.5-by-32-inch horizontal panorama portrays Ed Ezaki on Stoneybrook Street in Cleveland—one of the Japanese Americans who experienced incarceration and who shared their testimony with Hayashi as part of her broader documentation project. The intimate dimensions suit portraiture that places the subject within the environment of their current life.

Created in 2004, the work represents Hayashi’s expansion from landscape documentation of camp sites to portraiture of survivors, connecting the empty foundations and remaining infrastructure to the human lives those places constrained. The “No. 1” designation indicates multiple studies of Ezaki, Hayashi exploring different approaches to representing survivors within contemporary settings.

The environmental portrait format shows Ezaki in Cleveland, where many Japanese Americans relocated after incarceration or migrated in later decades. The Stoneybrook Street setting locates him in ordinary residential landscape, the domestic context contrasting with the extraordinary history he carries.

The photo collage technique applied to portraiture creates different effects than landscape documentation: the fragmented assembly revealing the subject from multiple angles while maintaining overall coherence. The assembled composition documents both individual presence and the environment that currently shapes daily life.

Survivor portraits complement the camp site documentation, together creating comprehensive testimony to Japanese American incarceration. The landscapes show where imprisonment occurred; the portraits show who survived it.