Anita Corbin
Documentary Photographer
Internationally acclaimed for her collections and exhibitions including Visible Girls and First Women UK
Anita Corbin (born in London, 15 August 1958) began her photography career in the early 1980s with her now internationally acclaimed Visible Girls series. A graduate of the Royal College of Art and finalist in the Sunday Times/Nikon scholarship of 1981, she then spent 15 years as a young female portrait photographer blazing a trail in a predominantly man’s world, covering human interest stories for The Sunday Times and The Observer magazines.
Visible Girls:Revisited Her 2017 follow-up series calls the original Visible Girls back together viewing those changed women in this changed country through a modern lens.
Her legacy exhibition, First Women UK, launched in 2018, is all about women’s achievements and her exploration through the camera lens that endeavours to answer the questions, ‘how will women be remembered for what we have achieved over the past 100 years?’ ‘Who are these remarkable ‘firsts’ and how can we ensure they are remembered?’ First Women UK is a social record, a historical document an educational project and, of course a celebration of the female trailblazers of our modern age.
Both exhibitions, Visible Girls:Revisited and First Women UK continue to tour the UK in 2021 and 2022
All images © Anita Corbin. Used here with permission.
