Boys & Girls of Modern Days Railways is such an impressive body of work. I am very excited from viewing his photos.
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Mike Brodie documents youth living on the edges of society, in images that are raw but not hopeless. A 22-year old photographer currently living in Philadelphia, Brodie calls himself “the Polaroid Kidd,” because until recently he shot only in Polaroid film on cameras he acquired at thrift shops. Brodie is now using 35mm film; his two current series of photographs are entitled The Rockaway Summer and Boys & Girls of Modern Days Railways.When asked about his future plans, Brodie says, “I just want to migrate for the next few years, following warm weather and photographing the train-hopping youth of America.” Brodie’s previous work was a series of portraits of people who, he says, “were once inhabitants of a small beachside community in Bugress, Maine. Most being adopted children and middle class runaways. But their little shanty homes were giving the town a bad image and were leveled to make room for high-rise condos. So I guess the handful of Polaroids I have of these people would be the only true documentation of the diaspora of this once thriving group of people.”
