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"Don't go for the easy story. Find something that challenges you, that scares you."
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Success breeds success. A majority of teenagers in Marshall, Mo., schools have benefited from a positive upbringing that has helped them grow. A 2004 report says that 59 % of Marshall High School graduates have gone on to attend a two or four year college. Nikki Cooley is a product of the support of active and engaged parents, strong public schools and a close-knit community. Along with being captain of the varsity volleyball team, senior class president, and on the honor roll, Nikki is also running for 2005 Homecoming Queen at Marshall High School. Nikki's competitive nature has played a sizable role in her accomplishments so far in life. The Cooley family typifies the classic athletic family – a family where mom paints signs for her daughter's game and dad coaches his son's football team. Marshall is a town where students have known their teachers families their whole lives and where school spirit reigns supreme. It has created a conducive, comfortable, learning environment for students like Nikki. This can make it difficult for people to leave and start a new life elsewhere. Nikki has been accepted to the University of Colorado at Boulder, but will as well be applying to several schools in Missouri. Her desire to "get out and see the world" leaves her tied between leaving Marshall in favor of a big city and staying close to her friends and family who have been crucial in making her the person she is today.

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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