What begins as a search for a photograph of Japanese-Canadian curriculum scholar Ted Tetsuo Aoki ends up as a curriculum inquiry into a documentary film. Hayashi Studio focuses on the Japanese Canadians of Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada at the turn of the 20th century up to the evacuation of them during WWII, and today more than a century later. Through photographs taken at Hayashi Studio, together with the stories shared by a community member and Aoki’s eldest son, the scholar’s life and curriculum theorizing become dialectically part and whole of the curriculum inquiry. The author explores spaces of seeing and hearing, dis-covering, and recovering, all the while asking where there might be a place for the stories and narratives of the documentary in understanding curriculum amidst doing curriculum research.