Tamara Cedré is a photographer, artist, and educator. 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.