In April last year, I performed in a rather descriptively-titled show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival called Luke's Got Cancer. It was funnier than it sounds. You see, back in November 2007, at the age of 22, a seven-centimetre tumour was discovered growing into the space between my right shoulder and lung. A generally unpleasant proposition made worse by the fact that this wasn't even my first turn . . .
An interview from issue fifteen. Last year, Kristin Perers turned fifty. She’s a portrait photographer who’d earlier had a career in fashion design. Growing up and growing older, images of women her age were part of the visual landscape. From models to actresses, there they were—at eighteen through to forty—in magazines . . .