I've come to photography just as I'd come to motherhood: a bit later in life than I otherwise might have planned. When I picked up a camera for the first time in decades, I felt most comfortable exploring landscape. I was particularly drawn to farmlands I'd witnessed undergoing repeated cycles of implantation,…

I have been an enthusiastic photographer since the age of 6, when my father handed me his camera to take his photograph. When the result came back, perfectly framed, my reward was a camera of my own the following Christmas.

Horror film director and all-round spooky badass Melanie Light contacted me back in 2013 and asked if I wanted to get involved in a new project that she had envisioned. As she enthusiastically told me, she wants to introduce a wider audience to a rather particular niche: the women of horror films.