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Peter Mitchell

Press release

A retrospective of work by one of the leading early colour photographers of the 20th century.

Peter Mitchell (b.1943, UK) is widely regarded as one of the most important early colour photographers of the 1970s and 80s. A powerful storyteller and social historian, Mitchell’s photography unfolds a longstanding and poetic connection with Leeds. He has chronicled the people and places, and the demolition and development of the city with warmth and familiarity for over 40 years.

Mitchell has been described as ‘a narrator of who we were, a chaser of a disappearing world’. From an alien's view of England, to demolished flats, proud shopkeepers and landlords, back-streets and eerie scarecrows, his photographs reveal his love, and at times, off-beat vision, of the people and changing face of the city.

Calling himself 'a man of the pavement', Mitchell continues to regularly walk the streets of Leeds to photograph his beloved hometown today.  

 

Through
15 June 2025
Venue
The Photographers' Gallery
Address
16-18 Ramillies St
Hours
Mon-Wed, Sat: 10:00-18:00, Thu-Fri: 10:00-20:00, Sun: 11:00-18:00