Corinne day photographer biography wikipedia

Corinne Day 19 February — 27 August was a British fashion photographer , documentary photographer [ 1 ] and fashion model. 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.

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It was during this period that someone suggested she try modelling—she worked consistently as a catalogue model for several years. In 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 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 modelling portfolios, Day began approaching magazines for work. Through Bicker, Day met stylists Anna Cockburn and Melanie Ward, with whom she was to create some of her most iconic images. Day's photographs came to public attention through her fashion editorial for The Face titled, "The Third Summer of Love" published in July