{"id":36899,"date":"2025-03-14T15:27:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=36899"},"modified":"2025-03-14T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:36:08","slug":"peter-mitchell-nothing-lasts-forever-at-the-photographers-gallery-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/peter-mitchell-nothing-lasts-forever-at-the-photographers-gallery-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Mitchell: Nothing Lasts Forever\u202fat the Photographers’ Gallery, London"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This stunning retrospective of Peter Mitchell’s work is must-see exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery in central London.<\/p>\n

Documenting a northern UK in decline, with \u00a0demolished flats, proud shopkeepers and landlords, back-streets and eerie scarecrows, his photographs make a compelling snapshot of life in the 1970s\/80s.<\/p>\n

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The Gallery’s website says:<\/p>\n

A powerful storyteller and social historian, Mitchell\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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Mitchell has been described as \u2018a narrator of who we were, a chaser of a disappearing world\u2019.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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Calling himself ‘a man of the pavement’, Mitchell continues to regularly walk the streets of Leeds to photograph his beloved hometown today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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