Peter Mitchell London, United Kingdom, b. 1943

At first glance, Mr. & Mrs. Hudson, Leeds by Peter Mitchell appears to be of a normal dreary day with a couple standing in front of a newspaper shop. Working as a truck driver, Mitchell has stated, “There are all these little tiny things that you notice when you’re a truck driver and they are just as interesting as all this other stuff in the world.” Perhaps some of those little things he has noticed are the way that the blue dress of Mrs. Hudson is the same color as their shop sign or the way that the ladder appears as though it is partially holding up the left side of the building like a supportive flying buttress. Mitchell stands on a stepladder to create the effect of being almost eye-level with the building and carefully frames the couple in the center of the doorway. Each of Mitchell’s square-framed images holds a bit of the world that Mitchell has observed in his travels.