Shuzo Uemoto was born in 1948 in Hiroshima, Japan, and has lived in Hawaiʻi since 1953. His interest in photography began while in college, but he is essentially self-taught. Over many…
Franco Salmoiraghi Franco Salmoiraghi graduated from Southern Illinois University in 1965, and has an MFA from Ohio University. He came to Hawai‘i in 1968 to teach photography in the Art…
Kapulani Landgraf Kapulani Landgraf is a kupa of Pūʻahuʻula, Kāneʻohe. Landgraf ’s books, Nā Wahi Pana o Koʻolau Poko (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 1994) and Nā Wahi Kapu o Maui (ʻAi Pōhaku Press, 2003) received…
Mark Hamasaki Hamasaki was born in 1955 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and graduated from high school in Bangkok, Thailand. Just after his graduation, he became a novice Buddhist monk and…
Karen Kosasa Stan Tomita Karen K. Kosasa and Stan Tomita are sansei, third generation Japanese settlers who have collaborated on a number of photo/text works and installations since 1990. A few of their…
Wayne Levin Wayne Levin was born in Los Angeles in 1945, he moved to Hawaiʻi in 1968. He graduated with a BFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in…
Renee Iijima Renee Iijima was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. After studying drawing and printmaking in Southern California and in Tokyo, Japan, she received her BA degree in studio…
Dr. Kimo Alexander Cashman is an Aloha ʻĀina originally from ʻEwa, Oʻahu. He is a tenured-faculty member at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa – College of Education where he…
Ed Greevy From political struggles to the Hawaiian Sovereignty movement, activist photographer Ed Greevy has been capturing Hawaiʻi history since the 1970s. Known as the photographer of the Hawaiian Sovereignty movement,…
