Anita Corbin

Exhibition catalogue for https://1stwomenuk.co.uk/2011/11/20/100-portraits/
Large format book, which does the pictures justice, encasing them in something of substance. For each woman there is her name and her "first" and a short biography. Some of them choose to be pictured in their professional capacity, with their robes or paraphernalia around them, others choose to be pictured at home, as if being a woman comes first and the first is secondary. They are mostly, far too young. How can we still be having firsts as we enter the 21st century? The oldest is Edith Kent who was the first woman to gain equal pay as her male colleagues - in 1943. She sits, as tranquil as any old lady, in her chair, but is that a steely glint in her eye?
They are here to inspire and maybe, just maybe, encourage the next generation to change the world as these women have done.… (més)