Kate Mellor

The reason i decided to look at the work of Kate Mellor is that when i saw her photograph 'Bagni di Lucca' in portfolio #28 her use of simple framing and use of light to create atmopshere was stunning. The image depicts a deralict building in which the empty framework of a chair sits, like a skeleton in an abandoned room to which nature has taken back. The thin vines reflect the skeleton structure of the chair and the main light intrails from a glass-less hole in which was once a window, in direct path of the window to the camera is a pool of rippling water reflecting the sunlight off and illuminating the room. The dark greens and blues of the image maintain the dark feel to the image while still retaining the light and contrasts greatly. 
On firther reserch the image was actaully from a collection titled ' In The Steps Of Robert Pinnacle' In which she was commissioned to photograph and document European spa towns and based the work on the paitings of Robert Pinnacle who used to visit these places. And while my favourite photos in this collection would be that of the abandoned buildings where nature meets the distruction of human ruins, all of the photographs have this amazing atmosphere and feelto them, im guessing aided by the use of the Pinhole camera and the distortion it makes.  She actually reconstructs the images that Robert Pinnacle painted, and i never really thought of that as an idea, of using painting as an idea of work. Maybe this is something i can look into further in the future? looking at how fear was percieved in the past in other forms of art and basing my own work as a modern uptake of that? 
even the idea of an empty abandoned room could even be used to represent fear of abandondment, or lonliness?  I just love the eerie feel given to some of the images by the distortion from the pinhole camera. Maybe i could try some experiments with one?