Bio: Born in Mesa, Arizona in 1985, Mike Brodie began photographing when he was given a Polaroid camera in 2003.

Since hopping his first freight train as a teenager, Brodie’s tramped around the country on and off for 18 years. Working under the moniker 'The Polaroid Kidd,' Brodie spent four years documenting his exploration of the tumultuous subculture of railroad transients and amassing an archive of photographs that make up one of the few, true collections of American travel photography.

His critically acclaimed books, A Period of Juvenile Prosperity, published in 2013, and Tones of Dirt and Bone in 2015, are two volumes of vagabonds and outsiders, lost people on a linear path they had no control over – the train tracks, or otherwise.