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OCA Photography Social Group: Peter Mitchell: Nothing Lasts Forever
Sat, 10 May
|London
Join the Photography Social Group in London.
Time & Location
10 May 2025, 11:15 – 14:30
London, 16-18 Ramillies St, London W1F 7LW, UK
Guests
About the Event
"For me, photography is all about coincidences" - Peter Mitchell
We are pleased to announce our next in-person meet up on Saturday 10th May at 11:15 BST at The Photographers Gallery in London to visit Peter Mitchell: Nothing Lasts Forever.
Peter Mitchell (b.1943, UK) is widely regarded as one of the most important early colour photographers of the 1970s and 80s. 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…