Anja Niemi - In Character (signed) animal

Anja Niemi - In Character (signed) animalThames & Hudson 2019 Anja Niemi In Character is the first career retrospective by the Norwegian photographer. Niemis work has emerged as a distinctive force within the venerable tradition of conceptual self portraiture. She works alone and always in character. With her purposeful and elaborate stagings, Niemi is photographer, director and female lead, inserting herself into the lives of her fictional characters. Extending the genre of self

Figures appear from reversed shadows  in pictures taken from a Berlin balcony

As a way of keeping track of all these images

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the photographs

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“Glass and Steel

War Primer notably drew attention to the didactic role of photojournalism that served war’s callous profiteers

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and the evolving meaning of home

During my retrospective research into the photographs taken at the time

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its creative potential is unfairly overlooked