When Mike Brodie began boarding the train illegally took a camera along and captured a subculture American teenager fascinating. Now, his images have been published with great success - and became an auto mechanic
go for adventures across the country as Huck Finn is very American thing to do, "said Mike Brodie is what he did on a whim in 2003, 18 years . Unlike many homeless youth as he rode at the time, Brodie took his camera and took along hotographs p finally distilled in a book
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, has published a photograph of American art print fine, Twin Palms.
"I have mixed feelings about the pictures that are in an art book and on the walls of art galleries," says Brodie, "and so do some of the children I photographed when they come to openings Ti. they have many worlds collide here., but most of them are okay with it, but happy that the photos on display. "
Brodie lived in Pensacola, Florida, in 1985, still in high school and working part-time "bagging food in a supermarket," when in fact Huck Finn fashion has decided to go in the territories, even temporarily. The first train rolled illegally across Florida in Jacksonville. This journey of three days resulted in a much longer journey, inside and out, until 2008, when all of a sudden decided that he should "grow and maybe try to calm down." During this period, about 50,000 miles traveled by train, hiding in empty freight cars as the U.S. accelerated. On the way, he met some of the "veterans", but the most photographed children who rode the trains in recent years as a sort of rite of passage teenager Jack Kerouac on Huck Finn. "A lot of guys I knew have since returned to their former lives. Is what I've done for any reason prior subsided. Some fled, some went to the adventure. 'S Like being homeless by choice, but I guess live and learn many American values ??like self-confidence of independence. "
Pictures Brodie did, as he says, "internet famous" when they loaded under the name Polaroid Kidd in 2004. Self-taught, he received his first camera, a Polaroid SX-70, a friend, but the pictures in the book were all shot on a Nikon F3 35 mm. He was influenced, he says, some portraits of Steve McCurry had seen a copy of National Geographic and photos by Mary Ellen Mark, but "not really that big photography. "However, the American art critic Vince Aletti wrote about his style:" Even if you're not intrigued by Brodie eclectic bohemian cohort - a band of foreigners with an unerring sense of style post-punk - the intimate size and warm color, slightly discolored his prints are seductive. Their portraits are sharp ... tender which is rare in any age. " photos Corey Brodie Blake, Rocket, soup, Savannah, Lost, Trinidad and the rest are shamelessly romantic all shades of soft colors and ample buttocks and dirty faces challenge stuck in the magic light of dusk or dawn. Do you think, in retrospect, this may have on hard-traveling romantic life of his subjects? "Well, I think that photography always does to a degree," he replied matter-of-factly. "But life is very romantic at the time, at least in the spring and summer. As long as you love the outdoors and do not mind getting dirty and not have a change of clothes for months, which is quite large. "
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