You're not in Disneyworld anymore: Florida's 'shadow country' laid bare by photographer who spent months traveling through the Sunshine State's wild side

Flrodai?

Tampa, Florida is pretty awesome

These people need jobs, not a hand-out and our (creeping-crawling-soon-to-be-here) welfare state is not helping. Where are the parents of these kids and why don't they work...or if they do what are they spending their money on ???? We need to bring jobs back to America and YES, make America great again. Donal Trump for President - the sooner the better.

Back in 1979 husband & I did a Greyhound trip coast to coast. You see real working class both on the coach, students travelling cheap & also non tourist places. We went through Florida never touching the tourist places on that holiday.

Man sitting among cypress tree knees is fresh water not mangroves..

I don't know, number 8 looks more like a human grave shaped hole in the ground rather than an attempt to dig up a car. This is Flo-Rida after all.

You see this all over Florida. Just drive 30 minutes out from the center of the cities.

ever look at a time lapse of detroit and Hiroshima after the bomb? freedom gives the worst in society the right to be a downright BUM. Some cultures/people are born without shame.

The beauty of true American people, the working class majority- I'm reminded of the writings of Zora Neale Hurston and her timeless stories of Floridian life, and of Hemingway and Kerouac, reinventing their own lives in the deep peninsula . . .

Those pictures look like they came from the set of The Walking Dead. Very post-apocalyptic.

Very encouraging! We are planning to relocate to Florida and absolutely don't want to be in the artificial neon plastic part. It is great to see real people.

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Nothing special about any of those photographs. A waste of article space.

Being poor is easy.

Picture 7, am the the only one that thought that guys shorts were covered in bird c r a p

Never understood the attraction of Florida, get off the beaten track and its a dump.

Florida has the lowest IQ in the USA.

It's the land of little Rubio...

I love photography.

Its OK as long you are non red neck