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Ashley Hood is a 10-year-old girl beginning a new life. After Hurricane Katrina destroyed her family's home in Bay St. Louis, Miss., parents Shawn and Becky decided that their family's best chance for a future would be to settle in Shawn's hometown of Marshall, Mo.

Three weeks into their arrival, Ashley is still the new kid on the block, but there's a sense that some normalcy is returning. With every friend she makes at school, every skip of her jumping rope, and every flashed smile, hope is spreading that everything will be okay.

The desire to get Ashley back into a regular routine as swiftly as possible was first priority for the Hoods, they said. The family was living in the Kansas City, Mo. area for over a decade before moving to Mississippi. Five months later, Katrina hit.

"We had planned to go back up to Kansas City, but on the way up there, there was just something that said Marshall was where I needed to be," Shawn said.

The Hoods are rebuilding their lives with help from family and community donations. Shawn and Becky look for work while Ashley works her multiplication tables and spelling.

While Shawn and Becky are still uncertain about what the future may bring, watching Ashley regain her rhythm is enough to keep spirits up, they said.

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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