Works from Tamara Dean's series The Edge features in the April issue of Anne Summers Reports.Dean talks about her most recent series, The Edge, and the select works from the series. "The Edge describes a few things for me: the dramatic emotional landscape of teenage years when self-discovery begins and independence is forged; being on the cusp of moving from childhood to adulthood physically, along with the emotional uncertainty and vulnerability which imbues those teenage years. For me, this boy standing alone in the column of water symbolises that state of transformation and illumination." - Tamara Dean, Anne Summers Reports, April 2014 "In this series I wanted to make the point that we have informal rites of passage other than binge-drinking. The places in nature that many of us are lucky enough to have access to in Australia and the USA are important social and environmental spaces for coming of age rituals. The rock drops and rope swings; the overgrown lots at the end of the street; the bushland nearby or at the back of the school. The spaces where teenagers go to flex their newfound independence." - Tamara Dean, Anne Summers Reports, April 2014 As a photo journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald for over ten years, Dean describes the move from journalism to fine art as "... a huge step for me, a dramatically different approach in almost every way. My works went from being responsive to an existing situation, to becoming preconceived and directed." - Tamara Dean, Anne Summers Reports, April 2014 Anne Summers, founder and editor of the online magazine as well as regular contributor for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, worked formerly as the Canberra bureau chief for the Australian Financial Review, was the editor of Good Weekend and has worked as a correspondent and reported for the Far East Review, Le Mond and the National Times. Read the Anne Summers Reports article here. Tamara Dean's available works can be viewed here on the Olsen Irwin website.