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A young boy shows his 'muscles' of to his family in Hatleberg photographic project on Flrodai - titled Shadow Country
The project looks at the wilder and less traveled region, one never seem by the hoards of tourists who descend on the state party and vacation
Other images capture Florida as 'a place built on mystery'. In one picture, a boy is seen sitting alone, seemingly caught up in his own thoughts, in the 'otherworldly' mangrove swamps
Hatleberg, who has traveled all over the US during the past ten years for his photography, told the New Yorker he had followed 'an imaginary line... trying to get lost.'
During his travels he came face-to-face with poverty, something he tried to convey in his pictures (workmen are pictured digging out a car)
Hatleberg, who received an MFA from Yale University, currently teaches photography at Yale University and Cooper Union, was fascinated by the non-tourist side of Florida
In his project, which involved a months-long journey to the most remote regions of the state, he photographed the area's unique quirks
He also captured the economic stagnation affecting the regions away from the bustling Orlando theme parks and white beaches (pictured is storefront with peeling paint)