Mike Brodie

Mike Brodie arrives in Atlanta to unveil his new body of 35 m.m. color photography. Fresh on the heals of a successful year exhibiting his series of Polaroids at solo shows in Beverly Hills and Milwaukee as well being featured in the 2006 edition of the Paris Photo. Mike Brodie is also the first artist featured in the Kin Subscription Series. A collection of four books independently published by These Birds Walk. Each book will exclusively feature the works of other notable contemporary photographers: Jim Goldberg, Ari Marcopoulos and Paul Schiek.

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When Mike Brodie left home at age 18 for a new life on America’s grid of railways, the people he encountered during his travels left an indelible impression. Soon enough, he realized that he wanted to tell the story of those he’s encountered riding the rails, in abandoned warehouses deep in the derelict parts of town, in homemade shacks tucked away out of site from mainstream society and the landscapes in between.

Now 21, he spends his time traveling the United States armed with little more than a camera and the spirit of youth. His desire to tell the story of his travels has led him to the crevices and cracks of riverbeds bled dry by the heat of a backwoods encampment, into the wizened gaze of a youthful squatter amongst the ruins of the country’s deserted dreams – those things that have been broken down, left by the side of the road and forgotten.

Part Kerouac’s “On the Road,” part Goldberg’s “Raised By Wolves,” each of the images in Brodie’s photo narrative simultaneously captures the rawness as well the beauty of the locations and the people he has met during his journeys. Brodie’s planned but candid photographs come together to form a poetic saga of his travels and offer an engaging look into the lives of some of America’s present-day nomads.