There Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down | VICE | United States

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There Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down

Stacy Kranitz’s series on faith-based spaces and communities in Appalachia conveys the transformative power of faith and the essential goodness of fellowship.

via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/there-aint-no-grave-gonna-hold-my-body-down-0000688-v22n7

While making these images, I found myself at odds with the process of creating a series of photographs that claim to represent the nuances of faith-based spaces and communities in Appalachia. I struggled with the complexity of translating the value and power of religion to urban populations, which have long participated in the characterization of rural people as simplistic and naive.