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Mike Brodie

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Mike Brodie


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Mesa, AZ, The United States

Mike Brodie, born in 1985, traveled on a freight train for the first time when he was 17 years old. Over the next few years, driven by a longing for freedom, boundless curiosity and the desire to explore an alternative lifestyle, he hopped freight trains through America for months at a time, covering a total distance of 50,000 miles. After a year of travel, he began to take photographs with a Polaroid camera of his impressions and the lives of his free-spirited friends.

After years of shooting, Brodie created a large series of photographs and the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity. The title jars at first glance, after all, his images do not hide the fact that life on the trains is hard. Yet at the same time, they perceptively and poetical
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Average rating: 4.37 · 189 ratings · 26 reviews · 7 distinct worksSimilar authors
A Period of Juvenile Prospe...

4.43 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 2013
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Tones of Dirt and Bone

3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions
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Failing

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Polaroid Kid

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