Mike Brodie spent five years riding freight trains across America, returning with an astonishing visual record of the teenage 'freighthoppers' that travel the USA illegally, by r ail. Without any formal training in photography, Brodie began documenting his experiences after finding a discarded Polaroid camera behind a car seat.
As a way of keeping in contact with the people he met while traveling, he started posting images to various websites under the name 'The Polaroid Kidd', and a selection of his photographs, spanning 2003-8 have finally been collected in a new book 'A Period of Juvenile Prosperity', published by Twin Palms.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/05/02/photographer-turns-camera-on-teenage-freighthoppers
http://mikebrodie.net/projects/gallery/
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