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Kern's Girl Of The Week - Corinne

This is Corinne, a Scottish girl Kern shot in 1997.

CORINNE

Every week Richard Kern invites us to his L.E.S. apartment where we go through a huge box of archival photographs from his long and checkered career. This is the third installment of his new series, cleverly called “Kern’s Girl of the Week.”

VICE: You can tell this is from the early 90s, right? Because of the shoes.
Richard: Well, you can tell she’s Scottish. This is from 1997. This was one of the incidents where I photographed her older sister a million times, and then she turned 18 and thought, “Oh, I’ll do her too,” and then I shot a bunch of her.

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She was Scottish but living in New York?
She was Scottish but travelling around. She’s a physicist [laughs]. I mean, she’s super, super smart. So she knows, being super smart, that it doesn’t mean shit if you do this. This was shot in Brooklyn around 2000, I’d say. Because I shot her sister in ’97, ’98, and ’99. Like her sister, she just decided to come here and get photographed a bunch. Then she took all the money and travelled around the world. That’s what her sister did too before going back to school.

Was this in any books?
I don’t know if it was in the book, but she’s another girl who I did get some killer shots of that I sold quite a lot of. I don’t want to say anything too crazy about her. But she did – one thing that happened to her was she fell out of a tree and split her lip right here. There was a period where she looked one way, then she looked another way because she split her lip, it’s almost like a…

If a girl has that on the side of her lip, I think it’s a great look. They kind of look a bit scary, like they got that for a reason.
A hook. Somebody caught them with a hook. But she had the look I was talking about that that British girl had – when I think of British girls, I think they’re very pasty.

They look ill all the time.
Well they’ve got that dark raggedy hair, super white – like I could easily see her 500 years ago, running around the fog in southern Scotland.

INTERVIEW BY ANDY CAPPER