CNN —In her striking images of the Faroe Islands, a remote archipelago between Iceland and her native Norway, photographer Andrea Gjestvang depicts islanders and livelihoods that are as tough and unforgiving as the windswept landscape. Visiting several times annually over the course of six years, Gjestvang trained her lens on the lives and communities of the islands’ unmarried men. Young women, meanwhile, often choose to study or work in Copenhagen (the Faroe Islands are part of the Kingdom of Denmark) or elsewhere in Europe. Gjestvang also captured the rugged geography of the Faroe Islands. “I think this has, of course, affected society, even though I will say that Faroese women are also very strong — they are tough, too.”“Atlantic Cowboy,” published Gost Books, is available now.

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Persons: Andrea Gjestvang, I’m, ” Gjestvang, “, Hjalmar, Gjestvang, Young, Aksel V, Johannesen, ”, Firouz Gaini Organizations: CNN, World Bank, University of, Faroe Islands Locations: Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway, Faroe, Kaldbaksbotnur, Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark, Europe, United States, Tórshavn