{"id":21755,"date":"2021-02-04T17:29:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T22:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=21755"},"modified":"2023-09-13T18:10:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T22:10:50","slug":"an-update-on-driftless-by-danny-wilcox-frazier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/04\/an-update-on-driftless-by-danny-wilcox-frazier\/","title":{"rendered":"An update on \u201cDRIFTLESS\u201d by Danny Wilcox Frazier"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Gabriel<\/a>
Gabriel Stutzman, the youngest of nine children raised by his Beachy Amish parents on the family’s farm, Kalona, 2003. From the book, Driftless, by Danny Wilcox Frazier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2009, MediaStorm published Danny’s epic project called Driftless<\/a>. You can see the film at:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/mediastorm.com\/publication\/driftless-stories-from-iowa<\/a><\/p>\n

This month,\u00a0Danny Wilcox Frazier joined Ziyah Gafic in conversation for a VII Insider Book Club discussion of Driftless. Danny was joined by special guest Gabriel Stutzman, one of the book\u2019s subjects. This recording will be available here until February 6 to Freemium VII Insider subscribers. After that, it will be available to Premium subscribers along with all other VII Insider resources.<\/p>\n

See the talk at:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/viiphoto.com\/resource\/driftless-with-danny-wilcox-frazier\/<\/a><\/p>\n

In Driftless, Danny Wilcox Frazier\u2019s dramatic black-and-white photographs portray a changing Midwest of vanishing towns and transformed landscapes. As rural economies fail, people and resources are migrating to the coasts and cities, as though the heart of America were being emptied. Frazier\u2019s arresting photographs take us into Iowa\u2019s abandoned places and illuminate the lives of those people who stay behind and continue to live there: young people at leisure, fishermen on the Mississippi, veterans on Memorial Day, Amish women playing cards, as well as more recent arrivals, Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews at prayer and Latinos at work in the fields. Frazier\u2019s camera finds these newcomers while it also captures activities that seemingly have gone on forever: harvesting and hunting, celebrating and socializing, praying and surviving.<\/p>\n

Poetic and dark but illuminated with flashes of insight, this collection of photographs is a portrait of contemporary rural Iowa, but it is also more than that. It shows what is happening in many rural and out-of-the-way communities all over the United States, where people find ways to get by in the wake of closing factories and the demise of family farms. Taken by a true insider who has lived in Iowa his entire life, Frazier\u2019s photographs are rich in emotion and give expression to the hopes and desires of the people who remain, whose needs and wants are complicated by the economic realities remaking rural America. \u2013 Alexa Dilworth, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University<\/p>\n

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