Lyn Robinson was born January 16, 1978 in Florida. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1999 and became a student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She was an art major with a concentration on photography. Robinson also had a deep appreciation of the horror of the Holocaust and what the survivors she would take photos of had endured. This began a two year project, during which she took photos of over sixty survivors. Robinson’s images were displayed at the Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center.

Don Laughlin was born and raised on a farm seven miles northeast of Owatonna, Minnesota. In about 1953 he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. In about 1966, he moved to the area that is now Laughlin, Nevada and purchased what would become the Riverside Resort Hotel and Casino.