Curran Hatleberg
Curran Hatleberg spent several years travelling across America in order to take photographs of what he calls "his own version of America". For 5 years, he had been driving from side to side of the US, without any precise idea of where he wanted to go but knowing that he was looking for something he didn't know yet. Most of these pictures represent the American working class in their most natural environment.
I found his project, The Crowded Edge, interesting because of the way the subjects are represented. Hatleberg described most of his subject as people we would wrongly perceive as different or disadvantaged compared to ourselves. But, when looking attentively to these pictures, you can see something else appear. You can actually see the bonds between the people represented, you can see joy in some of them, in others you can see worry or sadness. All ways, what you see are humans and it forces you to think of them as so and not as some disadvantaged strangers.
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