MIKE BRODIE: POLAROID KID JIM MANGAN appearing like beautiful color field

appearing like beautiful color field abstractions

“are mostly a second naming of a person after their true character is known

and a nuanced sense of place

Mangan’s pictures transport the reader into an alternate reality of the boys’ making: where they explore the rugged terrain of southern Utah

The photographer explained: “This year’s events raise the disturbing thought that ‘free access’ is fragile and depends on the political agenda

MIKE BRODIE: POLAROID KID JIM MANGAN appearing like beautiful color fieldABOUT: At the age of 17, Mike Brodie left home, hoping a freight train to Jacksonville, Florida. His first trip lasted little more than a few days but was the start of a lifelong journey that would see him become one of the most intuitive photographers of his generation. On finding an abandoned Polaroid camera stuffed behind a car seat in 2004, Brodie began to produce a sprawling document of his journey riding the rails across the expanse of North