MITCHELL, Peter

About the British photographer, Peter MITCHELL (b. 1943 in Manchester)

Peter MITCHELL is known for documenting Leeds and the surrounding area for more than 40 years. In 2007 his work was included in 'How We Are: Photographing Britain', a photography exhibition held at Tate Britain. First of all, 1979 Impressions Gallery showed his work 'A New Refutation of the Viking 4 Space Mission', which considered what Leeds would look like to aliens arriving from Mars. His images of Quarry Hill flats were published as 'Memento Mori' in 1990, re-published as facsimile in 2016. His ongoing documentation of Leeds became the critically well received monograph 'Strangely Familiar'; the follow-up, 'Some Thing Means Everything to Somebody' (2015), shows inanimate objects looked over by scarecrows.

Photo books by Peter MITCHELL

'Early Sunday Morning' (2020); 'A New Refutation of the Viking 4 Space Mission.' (2017); 'Memento Mori' (1990, 2016); 'Some Thing means Everything to Somebody' (2015); 'Strangely Familiar' (2013)