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- ↑ "Visible Girls: London's subculture heroines then and now – in pictures", The Guardian, 11 May 2016
- ↑ Ailis Brennan (2 May 2018), "First Women UK: An exhibition celebrating 100 pioneering 21st century women is complete after a decade", Evening Standard
- ↑ Mary-Jane Wiltsher (1 September 2017), "Female Subculture Photographer Anita Corbin On The Cultural Keystones That Shaped Her World", Phoenix
