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Astrid Gomez received a wrestling scholarship to attend the Missouri Valley College in 2004. Originally from Hereford, Tx, she is a nationally recognized wrestler in a sport that most think of for men only. She's 20 years old.

Last year she lived in a dormitory room with Brittany, but the two decided to move out of the dormitory to a mobile home park and they were joined by Astrid's boyfriend. William Shows, 23. William is currently looking for employment.

Astrid has been wrestling since 9th grade and has a passion for it. At Missouri Valley College she studies Economics and Mass Communications. She hopes eventually to join her mother in a partnership to run a restaurant, and she hopes also to have a career in television.

William and Astrid have a strong relationship - and though they do sometimes argue they love being together. Recently arrived from Texas and with no close friends in the area, William says, "I'm with Astrid, that's enough for me,"

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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