Tamara Cedré | Artist
Tamara Cedré is a photographer, artist and lecturer at Cal State San Bernardino. She completed her MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art with a research emphasis in critical studies and lens-based media. She uses photography as a personal, political tool of documentation, working collaboratively with her subjects to bring visibility to conditions that often go unseen. For this project, she wanted to create a community work that highlighted the struggles of her neighbors living through a pandemic with perseverance.
As co-director of the creative studio Rivercane Media, she is excited about continuing her documentary work as an image maker. Her upcoming book, set to be published in 2022, mines historical and personal archives that articulate diasporic identity shaped by the colonial status of her family’s homeland of Puerto Rico. www.tamaracedre.com
Adrian Metoyer III | Producer
Adrian Metoyer is an emerging independent filmmaker from Compton. He is co-director of the creative studio Rivercane Media. Adrian raised his children in Hesperia and continues to document Black life across Southern California. After spending most of his career as a paraeducator working with special needs children and being a devoted foster parent for over a decade, he chose to follow his dream of making films full time. His passion is to write, direct and produce content that is not represented in mainstream media. He has worked on multiple sets and behind the scenes assisting with production, but was excited to help bring the film stories of A Space Between Us to life. Rivercane Media’s next project is working on a docuseries about the disappearance of Black spaces in the South Bay. www.rivercanemedia.org
James M. Dailey | Zine Artist & Intern
James M. Dailey was raised and lives in Hesperia California. Their photographic work includes themes of water as a resource, along with space being a diminishing commodity. Their practice involves using images and historical archives to reflect and document the foundational issues that have and continue to shape the High Desert landscape and the individuals within it.
Juan Carrillo-Dominguez | Film Subject & Intern
Juan Carillo-Dominguez is an artist working in the Inland Empire. His art explores the shared experience of being a first generation Chicano that was raised by a family who crossed the border for a better opportunity in life. Through photography and other media, he creates images that introduce social issues related to this migration that so deeply shapes Latinx communities.
Raymond Alva | 2nd Camera & Post-production
Raymond Alva is a creative from the Inland Empire who specializes in working with other artists to create imagery with a collaborative vision. His client list includes NPR, Capital Records, Culture Co and Sandals Church. www.raymondalva.com
Special Thanks
Special thanks to our subjects J.T. Turner, Tedra Rose, Aurora Gonzalez and the Carrillo-Dominguez Family. We’d also like to thank: Eric Servin @ The Little Gallery of San Bernardino, David Ardill, Rodney “Gumbo” King at NASA Studios, Christopher Kern @ Calbaptist University, Sant Khalsa @ Joshua Tree Center for Photographic Arts, Ryan Stanley @ The Enterprise Building, Jorge Osvaldo Heredia @ The Garcia Center, the beautiful souls of Joshua Tree, Kathy Swett and our curator Shelly Willis.