At 17 Mike Brodie hopped his first train close to home in Pensacola, Florida thinking he would visit a friend in Mobile, Alabama.
When asked about his approach to travel and photography he says sometimes I take a train the wrong way or]€]whatever happens a photo will come out of it, so it doesn\'t really matter where I end up.. documenting his experiences, now appreciated as one of the most impressive archives of personal travel photography.
He has spent years crisscrossing the U.
S.
Shortly after his travels began he found a camera stuffed behind a car seat and began to take pictures.
Nonetheless, it sparked something in him and he began to wander across America by any means that were free € walking, hitchhiking, and train hopping.
Days later he rode the same train home, arriving back where he started.
Instead, the train took him in the opposite direction to Jacksonville, Florida.
At 17 Mike Brodie hopped his first train close to home in Pensacola, Florida thinking he would visit a friend in Mobile, Alabama