Tag: Curran Hatleberg

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

Taking pictures while drifting back and forth along the continental United States, Yale MFA graduate Curran Hatleberg has created a photographic world that can only be described as American

Curran Hatleberg has driven from coast to coast at least five times since he began taking photos on the road. “When I started I was interested in looking for some sort of shared familiarity and human contact in a country I called home but I didn’t know much about,” he said.