This work was
made for a commission
to document European spa towns.
I chose to base the project upon the career
of the landscape painter Robert Pinnacle, who visited
and resided amongst these unique societies which provided his main
source of patronage. In Pinnacle's era, artists frequently used such devices
as pinholes to assist perspective and, partly for this reason, I chose to re-construct his
works using a pinhole camera. While re-tracing his career through Europe
I made other photographic works using a variety of formats and
processes, both contemporary and historic, drawing on
the narratives that prevail in these once
fashionable locations.