For three years hitchhiked and train hopped across the US, traveling over 50,000 miles through 46 states. Having no previous interest in photography, Mike Brodie began taking pictures only after he discovered an old Polaroid camera behind a car seat. With that same Polaroid camera, and later a 1980 Nikon F3, Brodie began documenting his travels, earning the nickname “The Polaroid Kidd.” Eventually, Brodie began posting his photos online as a way to stay in touch with friends and people he had encountered along the way.
In 2008, Brodie received the Baum Award for An Emerging American Photographer for work he did not even know had been submitted for consideration. Since receiving the Baum Award, Brodie’s photography has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, American PHOTO, and PDN and has been incorporated into the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Berkeley Museum of Art. In 2013, released a book of Brodie’s work, “.”
Brodie’s photography is considered by some to be “one of the most impressive archives of American travel photography.” Brodie is now working as a mechanic in Oakland, California.
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Posted by Katie Wood
All images from the series A Period Of Juvenile Prosperity 2006-2009 © Mike Brodie
