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For the past 12 years Marshall resident Carolyn Root has been collecting and caring for stray dogs. Carolyn, 56, keeps nine at her home and 50 at a three acre place in the country.

"Sometimes I like dogs more than people, they always love you and they would never stab you in the back." Her husband Ronnie works full-time at ConAgra Frozen Food as a forklift mechanic. Carolyn works 25 hours a week as a custodian at First United Methodist Church. Ronnie's paycheck pays the bills and puts food on their table. Carolyn's paycheck goes to dog food and supplies to take care of her dogs. "I could buy a Jaguar with all the money I've spent on dog food, but you can't drive a Jaguar on a gravel road."

Their days are long. Ronnie rises at 4 am, Carolyn must be to work by 7 am. After working until noon Carolyn goes home to rest. Root, a 56 year-old diabetic, is recovering from a recent knee surgery. Taking care of the dogs, at the best of times is hard, dirty work. With a sore unsteady knee it is twice as difficult and Ronnie shoulders much of the work load. Everyday, 365 days a year, late afternoon will find them feeding and caring for their country dogs. The process takes a couple of hours; chores finished they head home. Exhausted, they feed their home dogs and head for bed. Carolyn says, " It's our social life, we enjoy it we absolutely enjoy it".

Photographs from the 56th Missouri Photo Workshop are available available online through the Year-by-Year page, or through the MPW.56 homepage

History of the Missouri Photo Workshop

The roots of the Missouri Photo Workshop are embedded firmly in a half-century of rich tradition; current workshops carry on principals present from the beginning.

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When the late Clifton C. Edom of the Missouri School of Journalism founded the Missouri Photo Workshop in 1949, he too, looked to the past to map the path for photojournalism's future. Inspired by the gritty, content-rich photographs of the documentary photo unit of the pre-WWII Farm Security Administration, Edom promoted research, observation and timing as the methods to make strong story-telling photographs. FSA director Roy Stryker and photographer Russell Lee worked closely with Edom in the creation of the Workshop and served as faculty members during its early years.

In subsequent years, faculty members have been many of America’s leading newspaper and magazine photographers and photo editors; a roster of faculty and students reads like a Who’s Who of photojournalism. Faculty of today includes some of the most energetic, productive and articulate documentarians currently working. All are experts dedicated to passing on the fundamentals of photo research, shooting and editing to those who hope to carry on these values and techniques in the future.

The workshop still follows Cliff Edom's credo:

"Show truth with a camera. Ideally truth is a matter of personal integrity. In no circumstances will a posed or fake photograph be tolerated."

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