Visible girls revisited

In 1981, as a young female photographer at the beginning of her career, Corbin made 28 double portraits of young women. They were from different cultural groups: skins, mods, punks, rockabillies, new romantics, rastas and young lesbians. The resulting photography documents a lifelong fascination with the way in which cultural allegiance and identity were boldly and explicitly expressed through fashion, music and environment in women emerging in to adulthood.

The original photographic series, Visible Girls by Anita Corbin portrayed the search for identity; the street-level self that was part of a tribe bonded by music, fashion and politics.

36 years later, Corbin’s Visible Girls: Revisited has called those original Girls back together, viewing those changed women through a modern lens. (source: https://87gallery.co.uk/anita-corbin-visible-girls).