Mike Brodie (b. 1985), is a self-trained American photographer who is best known by his pseudonym - ‘The Polaroid Kid’. His photographs largely depict what he refers to as ‘travel culture’, train-hoppers, vagabonds, squatters and hobos.
In 2003 Brodie left home at 18 to travel the rails across America. A friend gave him a camera and he found himself spending three years photographing the friends and companions he encountered with the now discontinued Polaroid SX-70.
"Even if you’re not intrigued by Brodie’s ragtag bohemian cohort—a band of outsiders with an unerring sense of post-punk style—the intimate size and warm, slightly faded color of his prints are seductive. His portraits.....have a tender incisiveness that is rare at any age."
- Vince Aletti
