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Thirty-five-year-old Trudy Hutchison says she jokes about death often. She said she does it to help her family deal with their situation in a more lighthearted manner.

After an eight year remission from breast cancer, Trudy is still joking about death, to help her two children Hannah, 14, and Hayden, 10, and her husband of 15 years Larry, come to terms with life, as she battles cancer a second time. This time it's liver and bone cancer.

"If I'm not crying about it they don't get too emotional," she said.

When Hayden was two years old, Trudy's doctors gave her only four months to live. "I would just lay on the coach and just smell him, and kiss him, I knew he wouldn't remember his mom but, he would remember this crazy women that just kissed him all the time. "

Despite her diagnosis, Trudy decided she wasn't ready to die, and for the sake of her family she would live those four months plus one more day just to prove the doctors wrong.

Now she's out to prove them wrong again. "There's just something about love that heals the body that scientists can't explain," she said.

Hutchison feels that her family is strong, and she is confident that if she dies, they will go on. "I don't dwell on the end," she said, "I just think for the day. Today I get to be a mom one more day, and at the end of the day, I'm just going to try again tomorrow."

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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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