THESE ARE MORE THAN PHOTOGRAPHS-THEY HAVE THE MAKINGS OF NOVELS. PLAYS. Curran Hatleberg was born in 1982 in Washington, D.C. and received his MFA from Yale University. He has traveled the United States extensively to photograph over the last ten years. He currently teaches photography at Yale University and Cooper Union. His work has been shown in galleries nationally and internationally, and he is the recipient of the 2015 Magnum Emergency Fund, the 2014 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship Grant, the Richard Benson Prize for excellence in photography, and is the winner of the 2013 Annual Juried Competition at The Camera Club of New York. His photographs are included in a number of private and public collections, including the Center for Contemporary Photography, the Yale University Museum of Art, the Williams College Muesum of Art and the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University. His work has been published frequently, in magazines including Harpers, the New York Times Magazine, Vice and the Paris Review; and books including, most recently, The United States (2003-2013) from Mossless Publishing. His forthcoming monograph Lost Coast will be released by TBW Books in Fall 2015.