Norma I. Quintana (born in Cleveland, Ohio) is a Puerto Rican American photographer and educator working in the tradition of social documentary.
In the 1980s Quintana moved to California from the Midwest and worked in Human Resources Management at Hewlett Packard.
Exhibitions of her work have been displayed at the Zoller Gallery at Penn State, the Katzen Arts Center at the American University in Washington, D.C., Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco, San Francisco Camerawork and the California Museum of Photography.
[10] A print feature appeared in B + W Magazine's March 2015 issue[11] and Quintana was invited to lecture about her Circus series at B&H Event Space in New York City[12] On October 8, 2017 the Atlas Fire in Napa, California destroyed the artist's home and photography studio.
[13] This launched her new series Forage From Fire which documents the charred items she recovered from the ashes and shot completely on her iphone.