Norma I. Quintana, Photographer

Norma I. Quintana is an American photographer and educator working in the tradition of social documentary. Using a medium format camera, she photographs with film, primarily in black and white using available light. Quintana's documentary project, Circus: A Traveling Life was published as a monograph by Damiani Editore, Bologna, Italy, and distributed by D.A.P. Artbook Catalog in 2014. Her series Forage from Fire is currently being exhibited at the California Museum of Photography at the University of California Riverside. After surviving the devastating Atlas Peak wildfire in October 2017, she began the Forage from Fire series that was featured in a solo exhibition at SF Camerawork in October 2018. She is a founding member of the San Francisco Bay Area non-profit PhotoAlliance. Quintana is presently working on her portrait series, Forget Me Not / Recuerdos based on family photographs from Puerto Rico. She has lectured nationally at major universities, including art residencies at Penn State and American University in Washington D.C. Quintana lives in California with her family. She can be found on Instagram at @normaiquintana. Her website is http://www.normaiquintana.com.