Florida’s Shadow Country – The New Yorker

Florida’s Shadow Country

In Curran Hatleberg’s latest project, the Florida of leisure and artifice, of Disney World and Miami Beach, is nowhere to be found.

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/floridas-shadow-country

Curran Hatleberg’s new project, “Shadow Country,” is named after Peter Matthiessen’s novel about the brutal Florida frontier of the early twentieth century. The Sunshine State of leisure and artifice, of Disney World and Miami Beach, is nowhere to be found. Rather, Hatleberg’s photographs are a collection of subdued moments, captured during a months-long journey (made with the support of a grant from the Magnum Foundation) across the less-travelled reaches of the state