Mike Brodie is barely old enough to drink alcohol legally, yet he's already achieved something photographers twice his age are still striving for: He makes enough from his photos to keep taking pictures.
Brodie fell in love with photography a few years ago when a friend lent him her vintage Polaroid camera. "I took a photo of the handlebars of my BMX bike, and the Polaroid that developed blew my mind!" he wrote in our e-mail interview.
Equipped with a Polaroid SX-70 Sonar OneStep from eBay and stolen packets of its hard-to-find film, Brodie began obsessively photographing the things around him and uploading scans to his burgeoning Website (Google "The Polaroid Kidd").
The results have blown several well-respected minds, including magazine editors and curators at Los Angeles' M+B gallery, which added Brodie to its roster and staged his first show in 2006.
Now living with his mom and brother in Pensacola, Florida, Brodie is fleshing out a new project in 35mm film, photographing his friends and fellow travelers as they hop trains around the country.
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