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Nosey ParkerRRB Photobooks presents Nosey Parker by Hannah Platt. In Nosey Parker, Hannah Platt revisits Peter Mitchell's Leeds and surrounding cities five decades after he first picked up a camera. Platt works with a quickness and wry humour where Mitchell is contemplative; drawn to bright colour, graphic lines and typographic treasures. This series celebrates the everyday. Fleeting beauty, bold type, golden sunrises, and stand out shop fronts wink to the charm

clutching a bucket of vegetable peelings or a picture of the Virgin Mary like a life raft whilst her husband (Czesław’s stepfather) hovers in the background

In these hard-hitting

a sign that other people are around

or occasional details

A pool of sweat shimmers across a commuter’s forehead

these modest structures become powerful symbols—monuments not only to rural heritage but also to the erosion of community

The work is divided into seven parts

Sebastian Bruno

scenes of multi-cultural London

in bright Play-Doh colours to encourage the viewer to slow down and engage with the original photographs

it’s a narrative that plays out repeatedly in a small town

From the late 1960s her work has focused on issues of social concern ranging from the Black Panther and Berkeley Riots (1968-9)

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