Sandy Sugawara, a Sansei or third generation Japanese American, is a journalist and photographer. She was an editor, reporter and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and held a senior management position in a global broadcasting organization.
Her parents lived on farms in California, until they were imprisoned in Amache incarceration camp (Granada, CO.) during World War 2. After being released from Amache, they resettled in Cleveland and Cincinnati.
Sandy was born in Cincinnati, graduated from Wellesley College, worked as a staff assistant to Norman Y. Mineta when he was a member of Congress, and then as a journalist in Washington DC and Tokyo. She currently lives in Maryland.
Her photographs are held in public and private collections, and her work has appeared in a number of juried exhibitions around the country.
Catiana Garcia Kilroy is a photographer and development economist. She studied History of Art at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, where she was born, and Economics at Catholic University of Louvain la Neuve in Belgium. She worked as a stockbroker in Madrid and London and on development issues in Costa Rica, before moving to Washington D.C.
Catiana has developed a parallel career as a photographer, influenced and inspired by her interaction with numerous communities around the globe. She has worked on both personal and educational projects. In Costa Rica she was one of the founding members of the Foundation for the Social Link (Fundavinculo) dedicated to promoting art for development, and led two photography projects teaching photography to two groups of underserved youth that resulted in two photobooks with their photographs: "Southern Views" and "Transits."
Her work has appeared in several juried exhibitions, including the “Global Images for Global Crisis” at the International Center of Photography in New York. Catiana is also working with Sandy on a project about Peruvian residents of Japanese ancestry who were kidnapped by the US Government and incarcerated in Texas during WW2.