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Corinne Day (born 1965) is a British photographer who was a former international model. She first picked up a camera to record the humdrum lifestyles of her struggling colleagues. Day's work is distinguished by her rebel against traditional high fashion photography where models are usually airbrushed, dolled up and glamourised beyond a realistic level. Her controversial photographic style and method launched what can be known as 'grunge' fashion photography which provided viewers with truth and reality whilst maintaining the beauty of fashion. She explained once in an interview, "magazines are superficial. They only talk about sex and love whereas there are many other aspects of beauty."

Her work has often simply been described as candid and hard-hitting as well as informal, confrontational and a confessional approach to the medium of photography. Overall, she is one of the most successful female photographers in the UK and is argued to be the person who changed and rocked the world of fashion photography. Corinne feels that her contribution to fashion photography is changing the picture from being about the photographer to being about the subject.

Early works
Day first became noticed in 1990-1991 when she took a series of photos taken of a then 15-year-old Kate Moss titled 'Fifteen' which led Moss to global fame. These pictures were published in the third Summer of Love editorial for The Face (magazine). Day's focus for the shoot was not on the clothes (as is the usual focus for fashion photography), but the character of the model. She wanted the photos to look like a documentary and for personality to shine through the images.

Shortly after, Day again photographed a series of pictures of Kate Moss in the model's own flat. The series resembled a number of photos with Moss standing in her underwear against several plain backgrounds including a halo of fairy lights. One of the photos was published in British Vogue in 1993.