This article is published as part of our #CultureIsNotCancelled campaign:
As of this morning, Photographs for the Trussell Trust – the photographic print sale raising funds for the UK charity, which provides emergency food and support to people in crisis – has raised an astonishing £480,000.
Today, the final day of the sale, an exciting new print has been added to the listings: a previously unseen archive image by celebrated British photographer Corinne Day for just £100. Titled Dark Ride, the image depicts Day’s friend Georgina Cooper following a car accident in 1995 and has never been published or editioned.
Day, who died in 2010, is largely credited with revolutionising the fashion photography of the early 1990s, introducing a grungey, documentary style which was labelled – somewhat sensationally – in the media “heroin chic”. She was, in the words of Glenn O’Brien, writing in May the Circle Remain Unbroken, published posthumously in 2014, “to fashion what The Clash were to rock – socially revolutionary, anti-snob, idealistic, funny, blunt ... the purest and fiercest of them all.”
This represents a rare opportunity to buy an image from one of British photography’s true icons – and it’s for a good cause.
Buy a print of Corinne Day, Dark Ride, 1995 here.
