Early published works from the recently deceased Corrine Day, a cutting edge photographer who gave Kate Moss her big break, will be exhibited from next month in London. Corrine Day established herself as a successful and sometimes controversial photographer in the eighties and nineties and it was her that brought to the world the first images of a fresh faced Kate Moss more than twenty years ago. The exhibition of her work will go under the title ‘Corinne Day: The Face’ and it will document periods of Day’s earliest work such as the fashion stories called ‘Heaven is Real’ and ‘Borneo’ that had been first published in The Face Magazine.

Highlights of the exhibition include images of Moss with chef / model Lorraine Pascale and a number of pictures of Moss, 16 at the time, on a Borneo beach mingling with the local kids, taken for The Face. Corinne Day had been a perfect fit at The Face, a magazine that set out to provoke the mainstream media and a magazine that Sheryl Garrat, the editor, described as setting out:

“a new editorial task of expressing the underground movements of the 90s. Acid house, ecstasy and the massive, rapid rise of rave culture was the magazine’s inspiration … It felt like a time for smiling rather than pouting, for bright colours and openness and also for something more natural and real – which Corinne Day’s images tapped into very clearly”.

As well as this exhibition there is to be published a brand new book documenting Day’s unpublished photographs, titled Heaven is Real in which there will be a collection of the photographs she took in between her fashion work and some images from her documentary project that she embarked on following local Berlin homeless children.

Alex is a journalist and blogger. He writes on everything from fashion to green living and writes a consumer blog for Coupon Croc .