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First Women:LIVE! New Online Archive

August 3, 2021 // 0 Comments

We are delighted to announce that our regular ‘In-Conversation’ Zoomcasts are now accessible in an online audio archive! For those of you new to First Women:LIVE! it is a regular, 60-minute online event in which two of the Firsts [...]

First Women of The Water – First Women:LIVE! 6th July

June 4, 2021 // 0 Comments

Our next Zoomcast features two bold females who regularly go head-to-head with the elements. On 6th July, we welcome to the Zoomcast Beth French, First Woman (indeed, the first person ever) to swim from Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly. Joining her [...]

First Women visit to Sandhurst coincides with military history in the making!

December 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

As Anita captures her portrait of the first woman to be made New College commander, the first ever mixed platoon graduates from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. How’s about that for timing? Friday 11th December was a fitting day to [...]

Our celebratory tour for International Women’s Day

March 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

Last week, The First Women Project celebrated International Women’s day on a national and local scale, kicking off with The Celebrating Women in Business Conference at the British Library on March 5. As a digital ambassador for the Love Digital [...]

Resonance FM’s special episodes dedicated to Anita’s Career

September 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

London-based arts radio station, Resonance FM is airing two special episodes of their flagship female chat show, Very Loose Women, dedicated to Anita’s career and her quest to reunite with the women she photographed over 30 years ago in [...]

Shortlisted for the Freshfields Prize

September 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Anita was among photographers from all over the world who attended the stylish opening night for the Renaissance Exhibition at the prestigious Getty Images Gallery on Wednesday 10th September 2014 As well as being one of just 47 images shortlisted [...]

Golfing Sisters is a Finalist Image for the Renaissance Photography Prize 2014

July 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

First Women’s ‘Golfing Sisters’ is selected as one of the Renaissance finalist images to be exhibited at the prestigious Getty Images Gallery from 8th – 20th September 2014. The photograph was one of the lucky few chosen for the [...]

Visible Girls – Join the Search

March 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

As part of my documentary collection for First Women, I want to recreate my Visible Girls collection from 1981. The collection was a series of double portraits looking at girls in subcultures; mods, rockers, skins, rastas, new romantics, [...]

World class American Photography Exhibition

September 1, 2013 // 0 Comments

Anita Corbin, a Somerset-based photographer, attended an exhibition in the American city of San Diego where her portrait of two sisters had been chosen to feature out of a total of 13,000 photographs which were given consideration by Julia Dolan, [...]

Four iconic portraits of women trailblazing

June 12, 2013 // 0 Comments

The four women featuring in the new Trailblazers’ portraits are Jane Atkinson, Senior Vice President, Sembcorp Utilities UK Asset Management and in 2007 winner of the CBI First Woman Award in Manufacturing as she frequently has been at the [...]