This story is part of the November 15 edition of Good Weekend. See all 13 stories .

Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we’re told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they’re given. This week, he talks to Polly Borland. The Australian photographer and artist, 66, is based in the US and exhibits her work across the world. She photographed the late Queen for her Golden Jubilee and has won major awards.

BODIES

The human body is central to much of your work, isn’t it? Yes, it is.

Where does that fascination with the body come from? Well, I haven’t really analysed it, but even when I first started taking photos in high school of my sisters, invariably we’d end up with them taking their clothes off.

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