The brief for Ghosted was the kind you wish you’d get more often. The editor asked for ‘something arresting and unusual’ and I was given a few photographs from the picture editor. That was it. So my brain wasn’t too clogged-up with book references or conventions to follow. I started looking for inspiration: I was mainly looking for fresh photographers and illustrators - something to tell a story in a simple way, to add a dimension to the few story lines I was given. This is a contemporary love story, with dark humour, a missing man, and a lot of uncertainties. Many of the images I was finding were of men or women without identities: a pair of legs, women illustrated from behind with simple hair to look like everybody or nobody and curtains being pulled to keep a secret.