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Photographer Norma I. Quintana to speak at the Napa Valley Photographic Society January Meeting
Norma I. Quintana is an American photographer and educator based in California. Born in Cleveland Ohio, she earned her Masters in Social Sciences from Case Western University and worked in human resources during her corporate career. Quintana began her career in documentary photography in the late 90s, attending Napa Valley College for a photography degree completed in 2001.
Quintana has also studied under influential photographers including Mary Ellen Mark, Shelby Lee Adams, and Graciela Iturbide. She works in the tradition of social documentary—primarily in black and white, film photography.
Images from her series Circus: A Traveling Life have been exhibited around the world and were published as a monograph by Damiani Editore and distributed by D.A.P. Artbook Catalog in 2014. Quintana’s portrait series Forget Me Not is an archival project inspired by her family’s immigration from Puerto Rico. Based on photo-booth images she collected from relatives, she recreated the backdrop and wooden stand to capture the extraordinary lives of every-day people within her community. The collection has traveled to Washington DC and Norma continues to develop the project with hopes of returning to Puerto Rico for more research.
Quintana's recent Forage From Fire series documents the excavation of objects and memories after California wildfires destroyed her home and studio. Works from this series were exhibited in 2018 in a solo exhibition at SF Camerawork and included in group exhibitions in Sonoma and Napa, CA. Forage From Fire was included in the traveling exhibition Facing Fire: Art, Wildfire, and the End of Nature in the New West originating at the California Museum of Photography, traveling to St. George Art Museum, Utah; Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Washington; and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Utah.
Quintana is a founding member of the Bay Area non-profit PhotoAlliance and has lectured nationally at Stanford University, UCLA, American University, Penn State University, NYC and internationally in Madrid, Spain.
Napa Valley Photographic Society (NVPS) promotes the art and science of photography, providing education, image appreciation, inspiration, exchange of technologies. Most months we invite guest speakers to evaluate our images. Guests are welcome to attend. Check the website for more information http://www.napavalleyphotographicsociety.org.
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