Driving through rural northeast Oklahoma, you would never know that it’s the site of a town that has suffered tragedy after tragedy. This is the sad tale of Picher, Oklahoma, and a look at what remains today.

Hello everyone! I’ve been working hard behind the scenes lately and I’m finally ready to share my newest project with you. Come check it out!

In November 2022, my girlfriend and I were driving through the Nevada desert on our way from Las Vegas to the Alabama Hills. Along the way, we came across Angel's Ladies - a defunct brothel with the deteriorating remains of a wrecked aircraft sitting out front. The story of this location turns out to be an interesting one.

Mullens, West Virginia is the epitome of America’s stereotypical coal town. The once bustling metropolis is a shell of its former self, with many of the buildings sitting abandoned, decaying further with each passing moment. Walking the streets of this shell of a city is an almost surreal experience, but things haven’t always been this way in Mullens. Let’s take a step back and see how we got here.

I really enjoy abandonment photography, though I don’t practice it nearly as much as I do landscape photography. Every once in a while, however, I like to throw my camera in the car and just drive around to see what I can find. Sometimes you come away with something and sometimes you get completely skunked, but that’s just part of the fun.

I recently did one of these drives and came away with a few locations that I thought I’d share. Enjoy!

Something I haven’t done a whole lot of is exploring and photographing abandoned buildings, an activity often referred to as urban exploring or urbex. It’s a subject that has always interested me, I just haven’t had much chance to practice it myself. As such, I jumped on board when I was invited to go explore an abandoned high school with some friends.