iamkatia Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 <br><br> i really like this kid's work.<br><br> http://svr84.ehostpros.com/~plrds84/indexdirty.htm<br><br> names mike brodie, 21 yr old photographer who<br>jumps trains and befriends and photographs<br>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..<br><br> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orvillerobertson Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamkatia Posted October 14, 2007 Author Share Posted October 14, 2007 20 frickin' one, can you believe it? i don't know him but i sure am proud of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aleksander_onisak Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 Wow....these are fantastic photos. Tremendous work. Live can be hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray . Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 NIce work, colorful people. What's up with that last pic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamkatia Posted October 14, 2007 Author Share Posted October 14, 2007 <br> I was thinking... food? <br> <br> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugene_scherba Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 <a href="http://svr84.ehostpros.com/~plrds84/indexdirty.htm">Clickable link</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uhooru Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 This is solid work....and the pic quality is high, beautiful color. I didn't get a sense of any kind of happiness though.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmnop Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 Amazing. Thanks for the link Katia. Tramping it is difficult, his pictures are beautiful without contributing to romanticism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asher Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Goose Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cenelsonfoto Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 A fine link, Katia. Thank you. Brodie is what happens when one allows curiosity to lead the head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnw436 Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 Hot sauce on a banana and a poorly field dressed possum really got my attention. That's tough living right there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_g1 Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 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>. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_elder1 Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Reminds me of Tulsa and Streetwise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jag1 Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamkatia Posted October 17, 2007 Author Share Posted October 17, 2007 <br> Kevin, you must be in the wrong forum. <br> Maybe they have a forum for sunsets or flowers that you'd be better suited for.<br> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jag1 Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamkatia Posted October 18, 2007 Author Share Posted October 18, 2007 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> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprouty Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 <I>More valuable are documentary projects which show how people should be living."</I> <P> Now, now, Kevin don't stop there, I would love to hear your considered opinion on how I should be living. <P> Seriously, give us all a few words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_m_johnson Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 <div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprouty Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 Beautiful, Robert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asher Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 <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. </li> <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> </ol> 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jag1 Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 >>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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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