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Francis Gavan, Ghost Train Ride, Woodhouse Moor, Leeds, spring 1986 In the words of Val Williams, Mitchell is ‘a narrator of how we were, a chaser of a disappearing world’. All photographs and quotes by Peter Mitchell. Texts from the book by Jane Bhoyroo and Diane Smyth

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A call to watch and admire Tom Hardy’s single-location masterwork: Locke 2013

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Fighting to save life Ayesha and her daughter Hanufa carry handmade sweets to be sold in a nearby village. They earn about 300 Bangladeshi taka (about £2) a day. Category: Street food Photograph: Mohammad Reaz Uddin/Pink Lady FPOTY 2024

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Les liens du vin Children help with the grape harvest at the Aegerter estate in Burgundy, France. Category: Errazuriz wine photographer of the year (people) Photograph: Jonathan Thevenet/Pink Lady FPOTY 2024

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A day in the field At the beginning of the rice season, a young farmer carries a rack of rice sprouts across a paddy field in Sakon Nakhon province, Thailand. Category: Tenderstem® bring home the harvest Photograph: Natnattcha Chaturapitamorn/Pink Lady FPOTY 2024

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Oh beautiful crumb ’Handmade sourdough bread with a crispy crust, fluffy and airy crumb and with the perfect humidity. Just feeling its smell makes your mouth water and you cannot leave it or change it just like that,’ says the photographer Antonia Larrain. ‘It’s a deep, unconditional and loyal love.’ Category: Pink Lady food photographer of the year (Chile) Photograph: Antonia Larrain/Pink Lady FPOTY 2024

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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

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Let them eat cake! ‘Lucy and Tony and their children made the long journey from Kent to the Isle of Skye to get married,’ says the photographer Lynne Kennedy. ‘They didn’t want to transport a traditional wedding cake all that way, so their cakemaker produced these fabulous little cakes in containers for them. We found a spot by the historical Sligachan Bridge and they tucked in!’ Category: Champagne Taittinger wedding food photographer of the year Photograph: Lynne Kennedy/Pink Lady FPOTY 2024

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Fisherman A man selling the catch of the day in the vibrant fresh market in Pondicherry, India. Category: On the phone Photograph: Hein van Tonder/Pink Lady FPOTY 2024

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Tribal farmers selling fruit Boats fan out across a lake, creating a floating market trading an array of fresh fruits such as jackfruit, pineapple and mango every morning in Rangamati, Bangladesh. Category: unearthed® food for sale Photograph: Ronnie Azim Khan/Pink Lady FPOTY 2024

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Moynihan House, Quarry Hill flats, 1978 Peter Mitchell: ‘I photograph dying buildings and Quarry Hill was terminal by the time I got to it. Times change and I know there was no point in keeping the flats. But what they stood for might have been worth keeping

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Billboard on the side of the Pavillion Cinema, Stanningley Road at junction of Half Mile Lane, Leeds, 1986 Regarded as the one of the most important early colour photographers of the 20th century, Peter Mitchell is best-known for his chronicles of the city of Leeds and Quarry Hill. A new monograph and a major retrospective of his work at Leeds Art Gallery establish him as a social historian and storyteller. Peter Mitchell: Nothing Lasts Forever is at Leeds Arts Gallery until 6 October 2024. A book is available from RRB Photobooks

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The visual quotations, allusions and echoes do not exist for their own sake.’ Dyer says. ‘These American photographs have sufficient internal power to support themselves but their circuitry – simultaneously hidden and there for anyone to see – has a history

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photographs: Michael Ormerod

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After taking my own road trip across the States this year, I look at my dad’s photos with a deep sense of curiosity. The anonymity of the places he captured really intrigues me, and I find myself hunting for subtle clues in each picture, which adds an extra layer of discovery to the experience’

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Ali says: ‘Promoting his work has sparked some lovely conversations and stories from those who knew him. It turns out he was not just a great photographer, but also a really nice guy. I’ve gotten to know my dad through the photos he took and also the people he knew’

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Edinburgh, Scotland Performers take part in a procession during the Samhuinn fire festival. The festival is a modern take on an ancient Celtic festival, marking the transition between summer and winter. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

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Washington DC, US Photograph: Daniel Cole/Reuters

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Moorpark, California, US An inmate hand crew battles a mountain fire in Moorpark. Fast-moving fires erupted across California this week as the state was lashed by powerful winds that complicated firefighting efforts, necessitated power shutoffs and raised the danger for more fires. Photograph: Allison Dinner/EPA

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Norberto Pezzotta: Augmented Unreality (juror pick) Norberto Pezzotta ‘This project explores the concept of beauty in the age of artificial intelligence. In a world increasingly dominated by AI, the definition of beauty risks becoming more standardised, losing its richness and diversity. In my creative process, I use AI to generate images that respond to a specific creative input. Once conceived, these images are printed on paper and placed by me in the physical space of my studio to be captured, together with real models, by my camera lens’

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