2026 SPE Annual Conference: Catalyst for Exchange
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Tamara Cedré
Saturday, October 19 - 2:30PM to 3:30PM
Kimball Arts 143
In my practice, I'm interested in looking deeper into the historical traces of how the landscapes that surround us came to be. I employ photographic archives as a way to address how land use policies create social inequality in communities of color. For the last decade, I have built a counter archive in my family's native Puerto Rico; building imagery to point to the colonial condition of my people. Community based in my approach, I have worked with several organizations and local residents on the island to challenge outside narratives. In Southern California, where I currently live and work, I see similar environmental racism. We are facing a a climate crisis that has been exacerbated by the warehouse boom. The media has come in to tell our story, but we live with these jeopardies everyday and know the struggle intimately. My continued work has been to mentor and curate supporting artists from these frontline communities as ambassadors of their experience, but also as a way of activating a new generation of image makers towards policy change. For my image maker presentation, I will share my personal practice as a photographer who works with archives and how I create counter-archives with and for frontline communities.
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