at Df HQ! It should have reached all our wonderful subscribers and stockists by now, except perhaps those overseas and in WA & SA… it seems to take forever to get x-country. This is what it looks like;

Cover photograph by Mia Mala McDonald

[*Spoiler warning* If you want the five people in Issue 16 to remain a surprise until you receive your copy - read no further]

Photograph by Karen Harris
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo: was born Diane Perry, the daughter of a fishmonger from London’s East End. At the age of 18 she read a book on Buddhism and believed she’d found what might fill the void she’d sensed in her life. Two years later, in 1963, she was convinced enough to travel to India. She eventually entered a monastery, the only woman amongst hundreds of monks. Then, at the age of 33 she spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas. Tenzin was far more interested in discussing her current passion for the right of women to achieve spiritual enlightenment than her time in retreat, for it’s in the present, and only in the present, that one can create change…
Photography by Adrian Lander
Alistair Trung: It amazes me that more hasn’t yet been written about Alistair Trung, after all he has been making amazing clothing for 13 years… That said, he doesn’t court the spotlight or social pages, hasn’t participated in Fashion Week, and doesn’t have a PR agent, so perhaps it’s not so surprising after all. In fact, it’s probably because, once you discover Alistair’s clothes and unique approach to dressing, you just can’t bare to share it with anyone else…
Photography by Bo Wong
Bronwyn Riedel: has this amazing ability to be able to turn the things she loves into successful businesses, and still love them. She and her husband, Andreas, make little distinction between life, work and family, melding them all into a lifestyle that suits them to a tee. Their business, Bauwerk (from the German word for ‘building’), produces natural, lime-based paints that not only give walls a delicious finish, but also allow them to breathe… Producing paint is ordinarily a notoriously polluting process, but the only byproduct of Bauwerk paints is sand… oh and beautiful walls…
Photograph Caleb Coe
Jim Denevan: When his father died, Jim Denevan, the second youngest of nine children, was just five years-old. Several of his brothers later became ill and when his mother, a mathematician, developed Alzheimers’ disease in the mid 1990s Jim took to the beach in an attempt to deal with the ‘trauma’. He began drawing in the sand with either a rake or a piece of driftwood found on the beach and the resulting works evolved into something extraordinary. Photographs of them have been exhibited at PS1, part of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Jim is about the ephemeral whether it’s the perfect wave (he is called ‘the king’ by his local surfing community), the drawing which will be erased by the next tide, or the dinner he’s arranged in a farmer’s field of which there will be no trace tomorrow either…
Photography by Narelle Sheean
Natasha Pincus: These days, rather than having limited choices (like if you’re a girl you’ll be a nurse or a teacher), we’re told we can be whatever we want. Although this is surely a good thing, it can sometimes make it a bit tricky to figure out exactly what you do want to do, particularly if you’re a bit of a jack-of-several-trades. It took Natasha Pincus two degrees (in Law and Science) and 365 days practising as a lawyer to finally commit to pursuing her first love, film. She has (under the Stark Raving Productions banner) since developed an extraordinary reputation for making short films and music videos. Feature film world, here she comes…