Fright club! Hollywood’s golden age goes ghoulish – in pictures

Photographer’s portrait, 2022

‘This self-portrait pays tribute to Ida Lupino, a fantastic British actress who was also a director in Hollywood in the 1940s. In 1949, she co-wrote and co-directed a brave movie about a young unmarried mother, Not Wanted. A few months before I took this, my beloved Canon camera unexpectedly died during a shoot. It deeply affected me, for I had used it for a whole decade, including as the main camera on my first feature film, Fever, shot in France. I wanted to do one last “portrait” of it’