[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.
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.
[17] Her projects on childhood often contain a psychological aspect and she is quoted as saying she is "pulled by the personal, the experiential in people's lives and that often includes issues-based work".
[7] Mitchell’s series 'In This Place' (2015-17) updates the lives of the people in 'Family' (1994) in a story of social inequality alongside the importance of family ties and the experience of loss.
This large documentary asks the viewer to consider how society operates and to see that choices are not equal for all people across the economic spectrum.