Norma 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."

Sally Mann’s praise for Norma I. Quintana’s Circus: A Traveling Life gets at the heart of its timeless appeal. Shooting with a medium-format film camera, using only available light, Quintana photographed the performance artists of an American, one-ring circus for nearly a decade to create this haunting documentary series. 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. The book is available for purchase.