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 images were featured in the anthology Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawaiʻi (UH Press, 2008). In 2019, a series of settler colonial postcards they created were included in the anthology, Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai ʻi (Duke University Press, 2019).
Karen K. Kosasa received an MFA from the University of Hawai‘i (1983), an MA (1995), and a PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester (2002). She is now retired and was the Director of the Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program and Associate Professor in American Studies at UH-Manoa (2002–2023). For over 13 years she taught studio art (drawing, painting, and design) at UH Mānoa, the University of Rochester, and Boise State University.
Stan Tomita is now retired. From 1979 to 2015 he taught photography for different periods at the University of California at Berkeley, Honolulu Community College, and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.