Road to Ruin: Peter Mitchell’s Leeds in Collapse – in Pictures | Art and Design

Two Anonymous Ladies, Tivoli Cinema, Acre Road, Leeds. Taken from Sisson’s Lane, 1976

Throughout his working life, Mitchell held many jobs—truck driver, silkscreen and printmaker, hand-lettering and poster designer, stock control clerk at a perfume counter—and all the while taking photographs. Mitchell’s exhibition A New Refutation of the Space Viking 4 Mission at the Impressions Gallery in 1979 established his career and was the first color exhibition by a British photographer at a British photography gallery.