Kathlyn Albright is a filmmaker and video artist from San Diego, California. She has worked in the film industry in one capacity or another since her move to Seattle in 1986. Highlights of her film career include opening and managing the Pickford Cinema, Bellingham, Washington's only independent movie house; extensive work with the Seattle International Film Festival and the Women In Cinema Festival; and the founding of SOS, a local erotic film festival. Albright has also written, produced and directed several short films, including the semi-autobiographical My Way Is Right, which showed at Seattle's One Reel Film Festival, the Palm Springs Festival of Short Films, and on Seattle's NBC affiliate; Bona Fide commissioned by Seattle's One Reel Film Festival as part of their 2003 Exquisite Corpse Exhibit; On The Watertower, shown as part of the Northwest Film Forum's Local Sightings Festival; and Seattle: Georgetown, commissioned by Cinema Seattle for the 30th annual Seattle International Film Festival. Click here to play My Way is Right or to learn more about ArtSpots.

Amanda Koster is a free-lance editorial photographer for national and international publications. Her work exhibits internationally and is part of a permanent piece on women and domestic violence at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. In addition to her long-term project on documenting the lives and issues of immigrant and refugees in the United States with a grant from U.S. Department of Education, her work has been permanently acquired by the American Cancer society as a contribution to the fight against breast cancer. She has also photographed for Doctors Without Borders in Rio de Janeiro, as well as many other international humanitarian organizations. Her work with bodyBODY was featured in the Women Photographers exhibit at the Frye Art Museum in early 2003. Her Web site is www.amandakoster.com; you can see the full "This Is Beautiful" gallery at www.thisisbeautiful.org.