SHE COULD HAVE BEEN A COWBOY by ANJA NIEMI

She Could Have Been A Cowboy by Anja Niemi sees her continue her investigations of the self. This time she turns the lens to a life lived under the constraints of conformity. Every day her fictional character finds herself trapped in the same pink dress, but what she really wants is to be a cowboy, dressed in fringe and leather, riding horses in the Wild West. Through this series of photographs with multiple layers and possible interpretations, Niemi delivers her most political work to date.

“The story is not really about being a cowboy. It’s about wanting to be another.”  Anja Niemi

Niemi continues to work alone, photographing, staging and acting out the characters in all of her images.

20cm x 14.5cm

120 pages

68 images

First edition of 200

Foiled cover

Hand numbered with fold-out map & poster

Includes poem by Lena Niemi, sister of Anja

Published by Jane & Jeremy (2018)