About the Author

Ronnie Farley is an award-winning American photographer whose work ranges from portraiture to pictorial storytelling. Farley’s previous books include; Women of the Native Struggle: Portrait and Testimonies of Native American Women (Crown), Cowgirls: Contemporary Portraits of the American West (Crown/ Thunder’s Mouth Press), and Diary of a Pedestrian: A New York Photo Memoir (Third Eye Press).

Ronnie Farley’s work has been shown both nationally and internationally, and has been critically acclaimed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Huffington Post. Farley’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of the City of New York, The National Museum of the American Indian, New York, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum, Cleveland, The Nicolaysen Museum, Casper, Wyoming, and the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, Fort Worth Texas. Farley’s photographs have appeared in Rolling Stone, USA Today, Sierra Magazine, Western Horseman and The Sunday Times of London. In addition to her own photography, Farley’s career includes working for the Associated Press over a span of twenty years, from photographer to photo librarian and national photo editor.