Peter Mitchell (photographer)

Peter Mitchell (born 1943) is a British documentary photographer, known for documenting Leeds and the surrounding area for more than 40 years.

Mitchell's work is held in the permanent collections of the Royal Photographic Society and Leeds Art Gallery.

[13] In 2020, RRB Photobooks published Early Sunday Morning, edited and sequenced by John Myers, which shows a different Leeds to Mitchell's earlier publications.

The book is described as "neither the sombre look at destruction seen in Memento Mori, nor the detached view of 'the man from mars' of A New Refutation of the Viking 4 Space Mission, but a more intimate document of Mitchell's own Leeds.

"[14] The book's title is itself a reference to American artist Edward Hopper's 1930 painting by Early Sunday Morning.

When discussing the book, writer Geoff Dyer said “It is as if Peter Mitchell has taken the atmosphere and mood of Edward Hopper's famous painting and established it as a matter of documentary fact in the north of England at a moment when collapse can lead to further desolation or possible renewal.