Peter Mitchell: Nothing Lasts Forever at the Photographers’ Gallery, London

This stunning retrospective of Peter Mitchell’s work is must-see exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery in central London.

Documenting a northern UK in decline, with  demolished flats, proud shopkeepers and landlords, back-streets and eerie scarecrows, his photographs make a compelling snapshot of life in the 1970s/80s.

The Gallery’s website says:

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.

Also on at the Photographers” Gallery

The admission ticket gets you into all the current exhibitions at the gallery, including the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025.

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Peter Mitchell: Nothing Lasts Forever
Photographer’s Gallery
Fri 07 Mar 2025 – Sun 15 Jun 2025
Admission £10/£7 concs

Opening hours

• Monday – Wednesday – 10.00 – 18.00
• Thursday & Friday Lates – 10.00 – 20.00
• Saturday – 10.00 – 18.00
• Sunday – 11.00 – 18.00
• Public holidays: 11.00 – 18.00

Location

16 – 18 Ramillies Street, London W1F 7LW
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