RIP Corinne Day
I felt compelled to pen a quick line of tribute to the late great Corinne Day, who sadly died in late August at a young age, a victim of cancer. I can’t remember who introduced me to her work – it was around the time she did some portraits of the immortal Kate Moss, which I think really had introduced her to a big audience. I devoured her work, and saw a couple of exhibitions of hers over the years in London. For me, she goes a fair way to epitomising 90′s / noughties fashion and portrait photography. I’ve included one of my favourite shots from her, Kate Moss photographed for the ‘Summer of Love’ issue of The Face magazine in 1990. It just about sums up the youth culture and social values which surrounded me growing up in the UK (I was 15 year old spotty raver schoolkid student hip hop sasha magazine snogging freak when this was shot). Anyway, check out her website, there’s a really decent portfolio of her work there – you’ll see what I’m getting at. She rocked.
