Artist

Kate Mellor’s sweeping project, “In The Steps of Robert Pinnacle” was commissioned by the European Festival of Photography and the Digital Image to document European spa towns.  Using a pinhole camera, Mellor based the project upon the career of a fictional landscape painter, using the construct of his life,  habits, and journal to frame the narrative thread running throughout and containing the concept.  She writes, “ I decided to explore our notions of history for this commission and realized there was a strong parallel between history and photography, that they have the same relationship to the ‘real.’  I worked with a mixture of fact and fiction—providing excerpts from Pinnacle’s journals which are hung alongside the images.”