Peter Mitchell is widely regarded as one of the most important early colour British photographers of the 1970s and 80s. A powerful storyteller and social historian, Mitchell’s photography unfolds a longstanding and poetic connection with the city of Leeds, where he has chronicled the people and places, and the demolition and development of the city with warmth and familiarity.

The exhibition design translates the humanity found in Mitchell’s photographs through large-scale titles, set in familiar and slightly nostalgic lettering styles. Bright, but a touch faded, wall colours divide each section tonally.

Interpretation is printed on a warm white, toothy uncoated paper, with larger examples being shaped with cut corners to resemble headline sheets from newspaper boards found outside of a local corner shop.

Lettering is hand-rendered onto the wall through a single layer of sign-painting. A process that is very present in Mitchell’s imagery, and also on the storage boxes positioned centrally in the space.