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ART MUSEUM TO HONOR FIREFIGHTERS AT COMMUNITY ART DAY ON OCT. 14
BY MARIA LINDSAY 10/11/2023“Participants will make clay hands inspired by the photographer Norma I. Quintana in the exhibition Facing Fire: Art, Wildfire and the End of Nature in the New West exhibition, up through Dec. 16.”
NEHMA BURN EXHIBIT DISPLAYS DESTRUCTION CAUSED BY WILDFIRE
BY SAM GOODMAN 09/18/2023“‘We kind of tell our stories by the things that we collect […] Your memories are triggered by these objects.’”
BY MADISON PEARSON 01/19/2023“Each photo of Quintana's is framed the same way, but the objects featured range from the husks of camera bodies once used to capture circus performers, remnants of jewelry that hung around the photographer's neck, and even the charred pages of Quintana's passport. She describes the process as birthing past memories, like an archaeologist on an excavation site far, far away.”
SEE HOW CALIFORNIA ARTISTS PROCESS WILDFIRES THROUGH THEIR WORK
BY MOLLY ENKING 10/18/2022“In late 2017, California-based fine arts photographer Norma I. Quintana was planning a trip down to her native Puerto Rico to document Hurricane Maria’s destruction. Instead, she and her family found themselves caught in another natural disaster much closer to home.”
BY STEPHANIE GERSON 09/15/2022“‘Art allows you this channel for breath; it became the way to negotiate the loss of my home.’”
WITH WILDFIRE DANGER GROWING, FIREFIGHTERS JOIN MUSUEM OPEING FOR ‘FACING FIRE’ EXHIBIT
BY ELLE CABRERA 06/16/2022“On July 20, Norma I. Quintana, one of the artists in the collection, will be giving a talk via Zoom on her ‘Forage from Fire’ series. The presentation will be streamed at the museum.”
CAMBIO 16 SEPTIEMBRE 2021El vínculo entre el cambio climático y los incendios forestales es inextricable. En California, somos muy conscientes de que nuestro entorno es cada año más precario. Pero uno nunca se imagina que formaría parte de las sombrías estadísticas.
The link between climate change and wildfires is inextricable. In California, we are very aware that our environment is becoming increasingly precarious. But one never imagines that it would be part of the grim statistics.
OUT OF THE ASHES AND INTO THE FIRE
BY JESSICA WEBER 02/19/2020“‘Facing Fire’ explores the beauty, threat, and devastation of California’s growing wildfires”
WILDFIRE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE CONSTANT REMINDERS OF CHAOS
BY LAURA MALLONEE 02/18/2020'“An upcoming exhibit at the California Museum of Photography showcases the unpredictability of the state's reliable disasters.”
NAPA’S EXCITING RAIL ARTS DISTRICT BOASTS PUBLIC ART AND A LEGITIMATE EDGE
By Matt Villano 02/22/2019“One of the boxes bears the work of Norma Quintana, a Napa photographer whose ‘Forage from Fire’ series is composed of images of artifacts from her home, which burned in the Atlas Peak fire of October 2017.”
BY SARA CASCONE 11/19/2018“One year ago, artist Norma I. Quintana’s Napa home burned to the ground, taking with it nearly all of her personal possessions, including her art collection and all of her cameras.”
NORMA I. QUINTANA: FORAGE FROM FIRE
BY ALINE SMITHSON 10/29/2018“I’ve often thought about the transience of objects, where after the passing of an individual, the objects left behind find new incarnations and new homes.”
ONE YEAR AFTER THE NAPA FIRES, PHOTOGRAPHER NORMA QUINTANA’S SHOW OPENS AT SF CAMERAWORK
BY kim westerman 10/03/2018“When the Atlas Fire overtook photographer Norma Quintana's home in the Napa Valley a year ago this month, she was dusting off a backdrop for her Forget Me Not series.”
FORAGE FROM FIRE - AN INTERVIEW WITH NORMA QUINTANA
BY DICKERMAN PRINTS 10/03/2018“Norma’s Forage From Fire series features photographs of her charred personal items, set against the black gloves that first-responders used to sift through the rubble.”
PHOTOGRAPHER LOSES CAMERA COLLECTION IN FIRE — THEN TAKES PICTURES OF IT
BY sam whiting 09/28/2018“When firefighters gave photographer Norma I. Quintana five minutes to get out of her Napa Valley home last fall as the Wine Country fires raged through the region, she didn’t try to grab any of her 250 cameras or her gelatin silver prints or darkroom equipment. She’d been through fire scares before and was always back to normal the next day.”
EMBRACING THE BLANK SLATE AFTER A TRAUMATIC LOSS | NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES
BY EDGE OF HUMANITY MAGAZINE 10/26/2018“Photographer & Educator Norma I. Quintana is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this documentary photography.”
FRIDAY ROUND UP: NORMA I. QUINTANA
BY ALISON STIEVEN-TAYLOR 10/19/2018“This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – Norma I. Quintana’s Forage from Fire, an intimate portrait of loss and discovery.”
BY charlie swanson 11/21/2017“Community art project memorializes Napa's recent disasters”
AFTER THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES, AN ARTIST PIECES TOGETHER A LIFE
BY SEPH RODNEY 11/09/2017“A photographer lost her home and studio in the Atlas fire; now she is taking stock of the future and making work with remnants she salvaged from the ashes.”
A PHOTOGRAPHER TURNS THE LENS ON HER OWN HOME’S CHARRED REMAINS
BY david markus 10/31/2017“The night the wildfires hit the North Bay, Napa-based documentary photographer Norma Quintana was making plans to fly to Puerto Rico.”
3 ARTISTS AMONG MANY WHO LOST HOME, STUDIO IN WINE COUNTRY FIRES
BY charles desmarais 10/20/2017“Photographer loses studio and art, but never faith.”
LOSS OF HER HOME TO ATLAS INSPIRES NAPA ARTIST TO CREATE NEW WORK
BY JENNIFER HUFFMAN 10/18/2017“Napa photographer Norma I. Quintana lost her family's home in the Napa fires. She's since started a new photography project called Forged from Fire.”
QUINTANA LIVES AN EXAMINED LIFE THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESS
BY JENNIFER HUFFMAN 05/02/2017“‘Pictures to me are like jewels of memory,” said Quintana. “I love images” — especially printed images.”
BY NORMA I QUINTANA 05/2017“Circus: A Traveling Life documents the everyday lives of these performers, behind the big top.”
CIRCUS CHIMERA - LURE AND LEGEND
BY NORMA I QUINTANA 03/20/2017“From Hugo, Oklahoma, to Paris, Texas, a photographic odyssey documenting the lives of contortionists, tightrope walkers and aerialists .”
TRAVELING WITH THE CIRCUS: PHOTOGRAPHER NORMA QUINTANA RETURNS TO NVC TO TELL THE TALE.
BY REGISTER STAFF 08/17/2016“Norma I. Quintana was at a crossroad in her life, ready to launch her photography career, when she found a traveling one-ring circus performing at the Napa Town & Country Fairgrounds.”
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY ANN JASTRAB WITH NORMA QUINTANA
By Ann Jastrab 04/25/2016“My educational background and photography created the platform for my interest and passion for documentary work.”
BOOK REVIEW 12/04/2015“Norma I. Quintana's ‘Circus: A Traveling Life’ is a beautifully prepared dish, created over a decade.”
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPGHY - CIRCUS, CALIFORNIA USA
By EDGE OF HUMANITY 12/01/2015“These images taken in California are part of a 10 year project “Circus a Traveling Life” by Norma I Quitana.”
INTERVIEW WITH PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER NORMA I. QUINTANA
By MONOVISIONS 10/17/2015“For a decade, photographer Norma I. Quintana followed an American, traveling one-ring circus photographing its acrobats, aerialists and artists.”
By GUP TEAM 03/2015“Children used to dream of running away to the circus, a dream that Norma I. Quintana (b. 1954, U.S.A) fulfilled, many times over the course of ten years.”
PAST TENTS: BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS OF AN OLD SCHOOL ONE-RING CIRCUS
By MOTHER JONES 02/07/2015“For a decade, I rendezvoused with James Judkins’s Circus Chimera whenever their route fell within a hundred miles of my home.”
By TAYLOR GLASCOCK 01/12/2015“Photographer Norma I. Quintana spent 10 summers following a one-ring circus.”
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PHOTOGRAPHER DECIDES TO FOLLOW THE CIRCUS
video lecture/b&H event space 01/02/2015“In her lecture, Quintana talks about her slow approach to documentary photography, the relationship between subject and photographer, the process of creating a long-term body of work and editing years of shooting material.”
PHOTOGRAPHER NORMA I QUINTANA CELEBRATES THE ECCENTRICITIES OF CIRCUS PERFORMERS IN AMERICA
By GILLIAN ORR 01/18/2015Circus performers have long been a favoured subject of photographers. But for Norma I Quintana, they had never been celebrated in an appropriate way, having their otherness highlighted rather than their eccentricities honoured.”.
By JOEL CHRISTIE 12/28/2014“Photographer Norma I. Quintana spent 10 summers traveling with the Circus Chimera. It was forced to close down in 2007.
CANDID PHOTOGRAPHS OF CIRCUS PERFORMERS CAPTURED OVER THE COURSE OF A DECADE.
By DL CADE 11/04/2014 “For nearly a decade of her life, photographer Norma I. Quintana devoted every summer to a group of people few ever get to capture through a candid lens: circus performers.”
ROLL UP, ROLL UP: THE SECRET LIFE OF THE CIRCUS - IN PICTURES
BY THE GUARDIAN 10/30/2014“In the late 90s, photographer Norma I Quintana found a flyer for a circus. One trip to the big top became a runaway collaboration that continued for a decade.”
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PHOTOGRAPHER JOINS THE CIRCUS
By JORDAN G. TEICHER 10/27/2014“Some children dream of running away and joining the circus, Norma I. Quintana dreamed of photographing it.”
PHOTO GALLERY 10/14/2014“The Circus Chimera is the ultimate melting pot, said photographer Norma I. Quintana, who spent 10 summers following the company as it toured small towns on the West Coast. Quintana met families from all over the world, including China, South Africa and Russia.”
QUINTANA PUBLISHES ‘CIRCUS’ ART BOOK
BY napa valley register staff 10/02/2014“Not satisfied to snap images from the stands, Quintana photographed her subjects behind the scenes, perfecting their craft.”
Book review by alexander strecker 10/2014“In Sally Mann’s words, “Quintana takes off where my heroes Bruce Davidson, Diane Arbus and Mary Ellen Mark left off—she clearly enjoys the same level of trust and intimacy as they did. Beautiful pictures.”
“CREATURES” TAKE OVER ECHO GALLERY IN CALISTOGA
08/22/2012“Napa photographer Norma I. Quintana is also attracted to what lurks behind the scenes.”
PHOTOGRAPHIC ALPHABET: Q IS FOR NORMA I. QUINTANA
04/30/2008“This haunting and intimate portrait series, shot in black and white film using available light, captures contemplative and playful moments with the families of artists and performers, off-stage and in back of the house, as they proudly perfect their craft.”
CHILDREN ADOPTED FROM CHINA TO VISIT AS GOVERNMENT GUESTS
BY JANINE DEFAO 07/23/2006“Quintana will help the children photograph their trip and hopes to create an exhibition, called "Returning Swallows," of their photography in China and the United States.”
BY MICHAEL PAGLIA 10/10/2002“For the last four years, Quintana has taken portraits of the members of a multi-ethnic traveling circus called Circus Chimera.”
