Mike Brodie alias The Polaroid Kidd

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i really like this kid's work.

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http://svr84.ehostpros.com/~plrds84/indexdirty.htm

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names mike brodie, 21 yr old photographer who

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jumps trains and befriends and photographs

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kindred youthful nomads.<br>

great stuff.<br>

this is just the kind of thing i'm doing and have been doing now for two years -<br>

documenting the (often nomadic) street kid subculture here in Seattle.<br>

the difference being i do it in the city and he does it off the beaten path.<br>

just love it..

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Katia, tremendous work. I was just starting to use a camera at 21. I had an Instamatic 126, I

remember, just taking family holiday stuff.

20 frickin' one, can you believe it?

i don't know him but i sure am proud of him.

Wow....these are fantastic photos. Tremendous work.

Live can be hard.

NIce work, colorful people. What's up with that last pic?

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I was thinking... food?

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href="http://svr84.ehostpros.com/~plrds84/indexdirty.htm">Clickable

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This is solid work....and the pic quality is high, beautiful color. I didn't get a sense of any kind of happiness though..

Amazing. Thanks for the link Katia. Tramping it is difficult, his pictures are beautiful without contributing to romanticism.

He was recently <a href="http://www.popphoto.com/photographynewswire/4376/the-

polaroid-kidd.html"><b><u>featured in American Photo magazine</u></b></a>.

Apparently he's moved on

from Polaroid to 35mm.

Well, it's getting harder to get polaroid film and it get's more expensive too, so while polaroid may give instant result it's still not cheap to use.

A fine link, Katia. Thank you. Brodie is what happens when one allows curiosity to lead the head.

Hot sauce on a banana and a poorly field dressed possum really got my attention. That's tough living right there.

Great portfolio. In some way the whole package (kid, portfolio, story, etc) reminds me of a

movie called <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126604/" target="_new">Pecker</a>.

Reminds me of Tulsa and Streetwise

This is just another fantastic example of wasted energy. Why did I choose to look at this trash?

 

I often wish publishing photogs would show us works that depict how life should be properly lived instead of all these morbid documentaries of poverty and war.

 

Get a life, Kidd!

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Kevin, you must be in the wrong forum.

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Maybe they have a forum for sunsets or flowers that you'd be better suited for.<br>

Katia Roberts, I know exactly where I am. I repeat that there is no value whatsoever in documenting poverty, desperation and war because creating and consuming these types of images doesn't help anyone.

 

These projects are pointless and a complete waste of time and energy.

 

More valuable are documentary projects which show how people should be living. This might be of particular interest to you, leading a typically impoverished life in the USA.

Kevin, your narrow-mindedness prevents me from further communications with you.<br>

I wish you the best in your insular world.<br>

I'm out.<br>

<I>More valuable are documentary projects which show how people should be living."</I>

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Now, now, Kevin don't stop there, I would love to hear your considered opinion on how I should be living.

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Seriously, give us all a few words.

on how I should be living.

 

Yes, please do. I sort of get confused sometimes on how you do the nice proper living thing. Some pics would be rather nice to point me in the right direction.

 

Waiting with eager anticipation. Thanks.

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Beautiful, Robert.

<p><i>" I repeat that there is no value whatsoever in documenting poverty, desperation

and war because creating and consuming these types of images doesn't help anyone."</i>

 

<p>Not true. Many difficult-to-look-at images have generate a helpful response in the

past. Just a few examples:<ol>

<li><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/photogalleries/

in_focus/photo6.html"><u>William Albert Allard's photo of a Peruvian shephard boy and

his sheep that had just been killed by a speeding taxi.</u></a> NG published the photo

and story, resulting in $7000 in contributions to restore the family's stock as well as new

schoolrooms, a soccer field, an irrigation system and a scholarship for the shephard

boy.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.popphoto.com/inamericanphotomagazine/4051/heroes-of-

photography-yunghi-kim.html"><u>Yunghi Kim's photos from Somalia in 1992</u>

</a> were among the first to alert westerners to the violence going on there at that time.

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<li><a href="http://www.popphoto.com/inamericanphotomagazine/4049/heroes-of-

photography-brent-stirton.html"><u>Brent Stirton's work for the Global Business

Coalition

on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC).</u></a></li>

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It's not always easy to look at this kind of photography, and it's certainly not for everyone,

but to state that it never helps anyone is simply not true. I don't know what Mike Brodie's

intentions are, but it doesn't matter. He's depicting how some less fortunate people are

living right now. You don't have to like it, but that won't change what's there.

>>Yes, please do. I sort of get confused sometimes on how you do the >>nice proper living thing. Some pics would be rather nice to point me >>in the right direction.

 

Mate, you might start with actions far less confusing, such as learning to control your focus, highlights and image compositions.