Margaret Mitchell (photographer)
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Margaret Mitchell (born 1968) is a Scottish portrait and documentary photographer.[1] Her work has recurrent themes of childhood and youth, place and belonging. She works on short and long term personal projects[1] as well as editorially and on commissions.[2][3][4][5] Her photography ranges from exploring communities, children and childhood as well as long-term documentation projects on issues of social inequality. Ideas around the paths that lives take have been explored in several series.[6][7][8] A book of her work, Passage, was published in 2021.
Margaret Mitchell | |
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Born | 1968 (age 55–56) Stirling, Scotland |
Nationality | Scottish |
Education | Edinburgh Napier University Edinburgh College of Art |
Known for | Photography |
Awards | Sony World Photography Awards – 2nd place Professional Category, Contemporary Issues (2018) Royal Photographic Society IPE 160 – Gold Award Winner (2017) LensCulture Portrait Awards: Finalist Series (2017) |
Website | margaretmitchell |
In 2018 Mitchell was awarded in the Sony World Photography Awards (2nd place Professional Category, Contemporary Issues)[9][10][11] with her long term series In This Place. In 2017 she was awarded Gold[12] in the Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition IPE 160 for a series of environmental portraits from In This Place. Her work is held in the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland.[1][13] Mitchell has exhibited at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery as part of When We Were Young | Photographs of Childhood[14] from the National Galleries of Scotland. She has also shown work in the Taylor Wessing Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.