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Like a folklorist collecting the insider's stories of faraway peoples, as an artist Heinrich has taken a detached look at her own family — through the camera lens. In the process, she became detached from the carnival life, but not until she'd captured the colors and grit of that quixotic existence."The carnival world is a world of big-hearted people willing to pick up their roots and move from town to town to entertain in America's most remote communities," said Heinrich, whose photography business is based in Little Silver."For my family, the pull to carnival life came about during the Great Depression," she said. "During the '20s and '30s, people were desperate for work. My family was in the food business. They had a product and they sold it."They wouldn't have called it a fast-food stand. Rather, it was called a "grab joint,' " she said. "They served hamburgers, hot dogs, sausage, peppers, onions, and both hot and cold drinks."Heinrich's mother, Betty, still belongs to the carnival world, albeit part time."She still loves it," Heinrich said. "Even though she has had her esophagus and larynx removed due to throat cancer and has had open-heart surgery, she still wants to be part - more available