As this retrospective makes clear, Mitchell is something of an anomaly in British photography ... They are the stuff of ancient legend and children’s nightmares, like stills from some obscure British B-movie or long-lost occult-themed TV series.
That sense of a not so recent past that suddenly seems irretrievably distant also resonates through the aptly named , a retrospective of the work of a veteran of working-class photography Peter Mitchell, at the Photographers’ Gallery in London.