Peter Mitchell (photographer)

Peter Mitchell (Bristol Photobook Festival, 2014)

Peter Mitchell (born in Manchester, 1943) is a British documentary photographer, known for documenting Leeds and the surrounding area for more than 40 years.

Career

In 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.[1] Martin Parr described this show as groundbreaking.[2]

In 2007 his work was included in the show How We Are: Photographing Britain - the first ever significant photography exhibition to be held at Tate Britain.[3] Other photographers in this show included Martin Parr, Daniel Meadows, Keith Arnatt and Jane Bown. In 2008 his work was on show at Project Space Leeds (PSL), along with Eric Jacquier, showing how Leeds has changed since the 1960s.[4] His images of Quarry Hill flats were produced as Memento Mori in 1990. His ongoing documentation of Leeds became the critically well received monograph Strangely Familiar. Colin Pantall described this work as "a classic".[5] This monograph was reviewed in The Daily Mail[6] and The Independent.[7] He told the BBC that it is a "gritty kind of sentimentality".[8]

His follow up Some Thing Means Everything to Somebody features inanimate objects looked over by scarecrows. Reviewer Karen Jenkins called it a "story of steadfastness and continuity".[9]

His work is held permanently in the Royal Photographic Society Collection,[10] and was included in Drawn By Light, shown at both the National Media Museum, Bradford,[11] and Media Space at the Science Museum, London.[12]

His work has also been shown in the group exhibition No Such Thing As Society: Photography in Britain 1967-1987 which toured between 2008 - 2010. This included works from the collections of the British Council and the Arts Council and was shown at the Hayward Gallery, London, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Tullie House, Carlisle, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, National Museum, Cardiff, Laing Art Gallery Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, The Exchange, Penzance and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland,[13] and Arbetets Museum, Norrkoping, Sweden.[14] His work, held in the permanent collection at Leeds Art Gallery, was also shown in the exhibition Artist And Camera in 2008 and was reviewed by "The Metro".[15]

Publications

Monographs

References

  1. ↑ Peter Mitchell: Peter Mitchell, accessdate: March 11, 2016
  2. ↑ Photoworks Ideas: Martin Parr on Peter Mitchell | Photoworks Ideas, accessdate: March 11, 2016
  3. ↑ Tate: How We Are: Photographing Britain: Room 5 | Tate, accessdate: March 11, 2016
  4. ↑ Federico, Cherie (April 2008). "Strangely Familiar". Aesthetica Magazine. Aesthetica Magazine. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  5. ↑ Pantall, Colin (14 October 2013). "Review: Strangely Familiar". Photoeye Blog. Photoeye. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  6. ↑ Nick, Enoch (16 July 2013). "Haunting portrait of a vanishing world: Photographer captures desperate decline of 1970s Leeds as the old way of life slowly died". DMG Media. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  7. ↑ Popham, Pete (13 July 2013). "Northern echo: Extraordinary photographs of Leeds in the 1970s reveal a vanished world". Independent Print Limited. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
  8. ↑ Killick, Cathy (13 July 2013). "Leeds back streets in 1970s caught on camera". BBC. "Look North", BBC. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
  9. ↑ Jenkins, Karen (31 August 2015). "Review: Some Thing Means Every Thing to Somebody". Photoeye Blog. Photoeye. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  10. ↑ Bush, Kate (23 February 2015). "Photography and the Science Museum Group". blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk. The Science Group. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
  11. ↑ "Drawn by Light". National Media Museum. National Media Museum. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  12. ↑ "Drawn by Light". Science Museum. Science Museum Group. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  13. ↑ "Centre for Contemporary Art". Centre for Contemporary Art. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  14. ↑ "Arbetets museum". Arbetets museum: Museum of work. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  15. ↑ Bliss, Abi (18 August 2008). "Artist And Camera fuses photography and fine art". DMG Media. Retrieved 16 March 2016.

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