The Winged Cobra Express

Changes for 2025

Following the retirement from management of Rudi Thoemmes, manager of Strangely Familiar and founder of RRB Photobooks, we are making some organisational changes. Strangely Familiar will now be man...

Sofa Sessions: Conversations with Martin Parr and Peter Mitchell

Sofa Sessions from the Martin Parr Foundation are a series of films where Parr sits down with makers across the world of photography to discuss their work. In this latest Sofa Session, Martin sits ...

Q&A with Peter Mitchell

Peter Mitchell sits down with his publisher and long-time collaborator Rudi Thoemmes to answer your questions. RT: Your photos captured so much of Leeds before buildings were torn down, areas rebu...

Peter Mitchell - LEEDS (Official Trailer)

A short film by Ralph Goertz, introducing Peter and the city of Leeds to the rest of the world. The film can be watched on demand on Vimeo

5 Years of Publishing and how Rudi met Peter

Rudi Thoemmes tells the story of how he met Peter Mitchell and how this re-ignited his passion for publishing. Like many things in the photo world, it was all Martin Parr’s fault. I had been a ...

Tate acquires the entire A New Refutation of the Viking 4 Space Mission

We are pleased to announce that Tate Modern recently acquired the complete set of 65 images which make-up Peter Mitchell’s A New Refutation of the Viking 4 Space Mission first shown at the Impres...

On Press with Some Thing Means Everything to Somebody

Some Thing Means Everything to Somebody is printed by Longo, AG Bozen

Interview with Peter Mitchell at Photobook Bristol 2014

You started out getting to know Leeds as a truck driver, after you moved there from London in 1972. What influence do you think driving round the city had in forming your visual relationship to Le...

The Ghost Train Man and a missing box of "Strangely Familiar": Reunited

A few weeks ago I visited Peter Mitchell in Leeds. As we went through his files we came across a photograph of Francis, the Ghost Train Man. I had seen the picture before, in a lecture Peter gave i...

Martin Parr on Peter Mitchell

Contemporary photographic culture would find it difficult to understand the impact that Peter Mitchell’s groundbreaking show A New Refutation of the Viking 4 Space Mission had when it was shown at...