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"So We Leapt - Para I Hinanao-ta Mo’na: Guam after Liberation & CHamoru WWII Survivors," showcases stunning photos of postwar Guam by Army photographer Frank Buchman. Many of the images have never been seen before and reflect a deep artistic connection to the CHamoru people of the time.
The book also features more than 200 contemporary portraits of WWll liberators and survivors who signed Guam flags taken around the country by California Superior Court Judge Johnny Cepeda Gogo, formerly of Sinajana.
The 170-page, 9" by 12" book also includes a narrative by award-winning investigative reporter Rob Perez & CHamoru WWll survivor portraits by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Manny Crisostomo.
Crisostomo also meticulously digitally restored and curated the Buchman collection of over 500 prints, negatives, and color transparencies taken on Guam from 1944-1946. Crisostomo published and designed "So We Leapt - Para I Hinanao-ta Mo’na: Guam after Liberation & CHamoru WWII Survivors," under his San Francisco Bay Area-based imprint, Sanlagu Publications.