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Hollywood’s recent obsession with photographers isn’t nostalgia. It’s hunger for something real in an increasingly artificial world.

From pianists to economists, some of our greatest photographers prove it’s never too late to pick up a camera

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has long served as a parable – a warning against the hubris of playing God, the dangers of motherless creation, reckless parenthood and unchecked scientific ambition. It’s a story that continues to resonate, revealing how little human ego and error have changed over time.

When I first studied art history in the late 1960s, all artists were men. It seemed, back then, that the act of rendering an image in line and colour, or visualising pure emotion, was confined to the gender that controlled society at the time.