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Margot Riley is a cultural historian and curator at the State Library of NSW. She has expertise in photography, fashion and popular culture, and has written and lectured extensively about the Library’s collections. She has researched and curated a wide range of exhibitions for the Library, including On Sale!: Shops and Shopping; Australian Glamour: Model, Photographer, Magazine; Flashback: 160 years of fashion photos; Memories on Glass; Coming Out in the 70s; How’s Tricks: Magic in the Golden Age and, most recently, PIX: The magazine that changed everything.

Dr Kate Evans is a radio producer, presenter and critic. She joined Radio National in the 1990s and has worked on historical programs, including Hindsight and Rear Vision, and ideas programs such as Australia Talks, Movie Time and Life Matters. More recently she has specialised in literature, as co-host of The Bookshelf since 2018. She regularly interviews local and international authors onstage, writes monthly reviews and appears on TV as a critic and books commentator. She is also a regular contributor to Openbook, the magazine of the State Library of NSW. Her PhD was a cultural history of press photography in Australia.