A space to call home

For those who don’t have access to see this project online, I created a zine as a visual map of the locations where our team collected pandemic stories in San Bernardino County. Historically, this area has inspired many photographers to capture what has been called the other side of two Californias; harsh inland terrain in stark contrast to a prosperous coast. If we are to meditate and learn from COVID-19, a place to start might be to take climate action to prevent another pandemic. Scientists have suggested that preventing climate change can help stem biodiversity loss as well as slow animal migrations that can increase risk of infectious disease spread. This begins with looking to the land. As Latoya Ruby Frazier says, “the history of a place is written on the body of its inhabitants and their environment.”

I asked photographer James Dailey, who was raised in the High Desert, to respond to my photographs. This is what we saw. 

 

The Newsstands

When we met James Green in Hesperia to interview him for the project, we were excited about the possibility of taking some old newsstands off his hands to refurbish them to house our zines.

 
 

James Green’s house

We transported them to James Dailey’s house to gussy them up

Pick Up an Issue

 
 

Viva la Boba

455 W 4th St Suite A, San Bernardino, CA 92401

 

The Wignall Museum at Chaffey College

5885 Haven Ave, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91737

 

California State University San Bernardino | Fine Art Corridor

5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407

 

Joshua Tree Health Foods

61693 Twentynine Palms Highway, Joshua Tree, CA 92252

 

The Garcia Center for the Arts

536 W 11th St, San Bernardino, CA 92410

 

The Green Tree Inn

14173 Green Tree Blvd, Victorville, CA 92395

 

The Enterprise Building

320 N E St, San Bernardino, CA 92401

 

The Station @ Joshua Tree

61943 Twentynine Palms Highway, Joshua Tree, CA 92252