Arts

Two anonymous ladies, Tivoli Cinema, Acre Road, Leeds. Taken from Sisson’s Lane, 1976
In the course of his working life, Mitchell has had many jobs – truck driving, silkscreen and printmaking, hand-lettering and poster designer, stock control clerk of a perfume counter – and all the time he was taking photographs. Mitchell’s exhibition A New Refutation of the Space Viking 4 Mission, at Impressions Gallery in 1979, established his career and was the first colour exhibition by a British photographer at a British photographic gallery