
Now You See Them Soon You Won't
- Publisher
- RRB Photobooks
- Year
- 2025
- ISBN
- 9781068386718
- Specifications
- Softcover
32 pages
Wallet-friendly small format
30 photographs
Design drawing on Peter Mitchell's own design work
Produced on the occasion of the Nothing Lasts Forever retrospective at The Photographers' Gallery, London
Now You See Them Soon You Won't is a compact collection of thirty key images by Peter Mitchell, published to coincide with his Nothing Lasts Forever retrospective at The Photographers' Gallery in London. Mitchell, the great chronicler of Leeds, has spent over fifty years photographing the city—its corner shops, scarecrows in the surrounding fields, demolition sites, paintwork and people. The thirty images chosen here function as a wallet-friendly entry point to his work and as a souvenir of the retrospective, with the design itself drawing from Mitchell's earlier career as a designer in the 1970s, when he laid out type and image for posters, packaging and his own self-published booklets. The result is at once a sampler and a small, lovingly made object, faithful to the eccentric, particular spirit of Mitchell's longer books while inviting new readers into the work for the first time.