Jacquie Bloese: The Golden Hour

Set in the underground world of erotic photography in 1890s Brighton, it tells the story of Ellen Harper who, alongside her twin brother Reynold, runs a seemingly respectable photography business. But at the golden hour, the models arrive to pose for the illicit photographs that really keep the Harpers’ enterprise afloat … And when Ellen develops a secret obsession with her latest model, Lily, she discovers that there is only a knife edge between the promise of freedom and the threat of ruin.

In conversation with Adam Bayfield.