About Me

A photo of Richard Mitchell

Richard Mitchell

I started taking 35mm photos in April of 2022. I was tired of having a million pictures on my phone and none that I could hold in my hand. None that I could give to others, to the people I care about. To the people in the photos. And I was tired of snapping fifty photos just to get the perfect shot.

I asked my mom if she still had any of her old film cameras, and she gave me her Yashica MG-1 rangefinder, which was given to her by an old family friend, Jack. I started photographing my kids and loved it. It quickly became an obsession and over the following year I acquired two more cameras and started shooting almost every day.

In May of 2023, I started exploring hidden places. The places I’d never seen. Within two months I had explored underneath every bridge along Riverside Drive in Tulsa. I loved how the concrete columns stretch across the water, like urban torii gates, and I was fascinated by the artifacts I found.

And now, I’m still obsessed. I hop in my car and search for the places and things that are abandoned, for architecture that goes unnoticed. I hope you find it as fascinating as I do.