Corinne Day

1. Corinne Day By Samuel James Gaisford

2. Early life • Corinne Day grew up in Ickenham with her younger brother and her grandparents. She left school aged sixteen and worked as an assistant in a local bank. After a year at the bank she became an international mail courier. It was during this period that someone suggested she try modeling - she worked consistently as a catalogue model for several years. In 1985 she met Mark Szaszy on a train in Tokyo - Szaszy was a male model and had a keen interest in film and photography. • During an extended trip to Hong Kong and Thailand, Szaszy taught Day how to use a camera and in 1987 they moved to Milan. It was in Milan that Day’s career as a fashion photographer started. Having produced photographs of Szaszy and her friends for their modeling portfolios, Day began approaching magazines for work

3. First steps in fashion photography • In 1989 Day had her first meeting with Phil Bicker, the art director of The face. Through Bicker, Day met stylists Anna Cockburn and Melanie Ward, with whom she was to create some of her most iconic images.

4. 1990s • Day photographed Kate Moss for her first Vogue cover in 1993. • During the early 1990s Day continued to work with The Face, as well as a number of magazines associated with youth and counter culture, including, i-D Ray-Gun and Penthouse, working with models including Moss, Rosemary Ferguson and George Clements. In 1993, Day was commissioned by Alexandra Shulman to photographed Moss for the June issue of the British edition of Vogue.

8. Illness • Davis was diagnosed with a slow growing, grade 2 brain tumour called an Oligo Astrocytoma in November 1996 at the Bellevue hospital in New York, after which Corinne returned to London for brain surgery at the Whitechapel hospital in December 1996. The surgeon and oncologist then gave Corinne a prognosis of 8 years left to live. Corinne was not expected to live past 2004. However Corinne outlived this prognosis by over 6 years, passing away in 2010 instead of 2004