Friends and Family celebrate their Firsts!
Some of the most striking moments during the show where those when friends and family of the Firsts came to acknowledge and celebrate them. Perhaps most poignant of all were [...]
First Women
The opening night in pictures…
Enjoy looking at the gallery of pictures from the First Women Exhibition opening night on 19th July 2018 at the The Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, Riverside, Hester [...]
First Women exhibition opens in London
The day has finally arrived! After a decade in the making, 100 First Women will grace the walls of the Royal College of Art’s Dyson Gallery as the exhibition opens tonight [...]
Exhibition Launch: Dyson Gallery, London – 20th July 2018
‘First Women UK’ will be exhibiting the full 100 portraits in a striking and immersive exhibition at the Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art in London from the 20th [...]
Interview with Louise Goodman
The first woman to take part in a Formula One pit-stop and also the first to present the motorsport on television, Louise Goodman expresses her surprise that anyone should [...]
Striking New Exhibition of 100 iconic portraits of ‘First Women’ from across the UK
Marking the 100th year of Women’s Suffrage (6th February 2018) To mark the anniversary of the centenary of women’s ‘right to vote’ , photographer Anita Corbin [...]
First Women featured in the BBC’s Festival of Remembrance
Anita’s iconic image of Lt Col Lucy Giles featured in this year’s Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall. The photograph was shown in [...]
100 portraits now complete!
Seven years, over 100,000 miles and a cornucopia of locations from a Team GB boxing ring to the House of Lords: the one hundred portraits that comprise the First Women [...]
Interview with Katy Cropper
The First Woman to win ‘One Man and His Dog’ – in the face of ‘competition, small-mindedness and having been put down by most men in the dog running world all my [...]
With Love From Violet…The Suffragist Connection
Anita talks about her family’s connections with Conway Hall, The Bonham Carters’ and the Suffragist Movement. “I grew up in a household of powerful women. An only child [...]