FINDER RANGEThe Photo Workshop | September 25, 2018 | Volume 70, Issue 3

Chase Edwards, 2, gestures toward the open casket of his great grandfather Raleigh May during visitation at the Craig-Hurtt Funderal Home in Mountain Grove Monday. Raleigh died Thursday Sept. 20 after a lengthy battle wit diabetes and kidney disease, which his wife Patsy May, 65, believes was caused by his exposure to Agent Orange while serviing in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War Team Chapnick "Practice boring people. Once you get people to ac- cept you, you bore them to death and they go back to their lives." - Randy Olson MaryAnne Golon Randy Olson

Team Cliff & Vi “Job one really is to find and successfully propose a story because that’s going to be the lasting lesson from this whole week.” - Dennis Dimick

Mary Beth Meehan Dennis Dimick

Team Cox “Meet people and allow them to surprise you and be beyond your expecta- tions." - Torsten Kjellstrand

Kathy Moran Torsten Kjellstrand

Team Lee "Take your time. Slow down. And appreciate the fact you get to spend three days working on a story, because that’s pretty rare outside this experience.

- Alyssa Schukar Alyssa Schukar Kim Komenich advice Team Gilka “Stories should not rely only on visual style, with- the abandonment of emo- tional intimacy. - Melissa Farlow (inspired by Lois Raimondo) Melissa Farlow Bill Marr HIGHLIGHT REEL FROM MONDAY NIGHT “Unprofound” insights, great pictures - by Maddie Davis

“What a privilege it is to be a photographer.” Jim Richardson’s wise words and inspiring “Wide Spot in the Road: Cuba, Kansas” kicked off a night of scinillating presentations by MPW70 faculty members.

Taylor Irby listens to a presentation. Photo by Jenna Kieser. AESTHETICS, • The world is made up ofNOUNS • What you are looking for is a AND VERBS for photographers. NARRATIVE. You might have pearls COLOR AND THE Photography is a matter of in your hand, but without five MEANING OF arranging those nouns and verbs. cents worth of string you don’t • It’s always good to HONOR THE have a necklace. LIFE IMPULSE by taking the picture and • Bring out their VOICE, not your KIM KOMENICH then learning from your mistakes. opinion. THE VALUE • Documentary photography SHOWS this, IT’S IN YOUR HEARTS. My SOMETHING REAL, and you don’t honesty may be different from OF THE MPW mess with that. yours. DOCUMENTARY • A brand is A PROMISE KEPT. If you’re • For me, PHOTOGRAPHY IS TRUTHFUL, not truthful, are you keeping your but there is a difference when you ETHIC promise? walk in a room. Be aware of the BILL MARR • There’s no answer in a book for influence you exert.

WORKING ACROSS • We are ALIENS when we carry • No matter where you are, cameras. LISTENING is your most important CULTURES PEOPLE’S COMPLEXITY TORSTEN KJELLSTRAND • Don’t erase skill. by making them just “one thing.” • We ENCOUNTER DIFFERENCES • The“PRIVILEGE OF THE UNKNOWING” everywhere. Decide which is the privilege of asking questions. differences matter to you. They will • Life is a FRAGILE WEB for almost all matter differently depending on of us. who or where you are. • You want to show what the person • Nothing that you can dream up for MAKING in the photograph is THINKING AND them is as interesting as what they PHOTOGRAPHS FEELING. will do in front of you IF YOU LEAVE TO TELL STORIES • Nothing ever happens the same THEM ALONE. THAT NEED way TWICE. • You have to be willing to DEFY • It is as important to know WHEN TO SOCIAL NORMS. You are not the TELLING LEAVE a story as it is to know WHEN RANDY OLSON guest. Stay when social norms TO STAY. dictate you should leave. #MPW70 - compiled by Hannah Musick

“The Missouri Photo Workshop is well underway.” “Meeting the locals in Mountain Grove.” @jennakieser - Jenna Kieser @ytajik - Yasmin Tajik

“Video producer Derek Poore watches as the LCD “Makin’ friends.” projecter is calibrated before the 70th MPW in @maddiegoldn - Madison Simmons Mountain Grove.” @mophotoworkshop - Brian Kratzer “I think that being in love at that age is a really special thing.” Photographers pitch stories - by Jessica Belle Kramer “I’m still allowing myself some room to create a change of focus.” - Stacey Rupolo

Cliff & Vi faculty members Dennis Dimick and Mary Beth Meehan listen to David Rodriguez as he discusses his progress toward having a story approved. Photo by Jenna Kieser.

The idea selection and approval Rumsey has not received approval it. The current one is on this 67 process of the Missouri Photo yet because he is waiting for year-old man. He’s a handyman Workshop is meant to be deliberate, permission from the person(s) he by profession… He just moved challenging photographers to wishes to photograph. Frustration to Mountain Grove in 2008. He research their own ideas, and our abounds. was in a marriage for 32 years photographers are feeling the “There’s a cop who works as a after his wife left him, he met this pressure to find a good story and to massage therapist,” Rumsey said. woman that he’s living with now in have it approved by the faculty. “Currently, the cops work four-day Mountain Grove. To make a living Team Chapnick member Andrew shifts and then three days off, so he and to keep himself busy, he keeps Ryan has received approval for his works as a massage therapist where finding odd jobs.” story but awaits permission from he earns 60 bucks an hour, and as Team Lee member Stacey Rupolo one of the people he wishes to a cop, he earns 13 bucks an hour, feels confident about her idea and photographs’ grandparents because which just seems a bit crazy. I’ve has plans to meet with the person the girl is a minor. spoken to the chief of police. He’s that she will photograph tonight. “It’s a story about young love and good with it, but I can’t get ahold of “Yesterday, I pitched three ideas, leaving for work,” Ryan said. “It’s the guy now.” and today I am kind of narrowing a 19-year-old kid who’s proposed After Team Gilka member down and whittling away at my to his [17 year-old] high school Kanishka Sonthalia had a couple of topic,” Rupolo said. “I am about to girlfriend, and he’s leaving in a her story ideas rejected, she found go and get official confirmation that week. I want to capture that last her footing with new one. I can start shooting.” week together before they leave for “They have disapproved my Though Rupolo has a set story two months. I think that being in pitches a couple of times, but I just idea, she is leaving room for the love at that age is a really special pitched a new idea right now, so story to elaborate. thing. I remember being in love at they’ve seemed to be fairly happy “I’m still allowing myself some that age and how intense it is.” with it, so they’ve asked me to room to create a change of focus,” Team Cliff and Vi member Nigel just hang around, get a sense of Rupolo said. RAY OF SUNSHINE Ray Wong’s 1975 live-in-the-barn MPW adventure - by Hannah Musick You may have noticed Ray Wong comfortable. And what’s the quick- helping out around the workshop est way to do that? To become part this week, his nametag sporting the of who they are.” mysterious crew title of “Impressa- Wong moved into the Heath’s rio”. You can also thank him for our barn and became part of the family Tuesday luncheon. But you might and for three days and two nights a not know what his long standing blanket and a pile of hay served as connection to MPW is and just a warm (if scratchy) bed. A dairy how far he’ll go for a picture. cow named Miss Kitty became his Wong has participated in MPW roommate. She kept to herself but as a photographer not once, but could sure could stink up the place. twice. His first time was in 1972 in Life living off the land begins Washington, MO. Wong worked as Ray Wong, age 68, with his two pet early, especially with 30 cows to a photographer and picture editor greyhounds Reta and Cal. Ray has been milk. Wong rose with the family to at the Toronto Star for a few years involved in greyhound racing for 8 years photograph every part of the day and has 60 greyhounds actively racing or but grew weary of spending more being trained. from Edna leading Miss Kitty out time editing other people’s photos of the barn by her tail to the family instead of taking his own. Ready to outside of town to try to meet with settling down in their transplanted leave Toronto’s chilly winters and to a family whose home had recently living room to watch TV in the shake the rust off his camera, Wong burned down. evenings. applied for MPW again in 1975 and When Wong arrived on the 10 or “Something I’ve learned about found himself in Nevada, MO. so acre plot of land, he learned the most photographers is that they’re A graduate student at Univer- three person family had moved into shy. And I was extremely shy. I had sity of Missouri-Columbia, Wong their barn. He knew he’d found his to learn how to get close to people remembers having both the ad- story. Edna Heath, 65, and her two to get pictures.” vantage and disadvantage of being children seemed to have more of The workshop week was drawing familiar with some of his faculty a zoo than a farm with 30 milking to a close and Wong had shot his members through school. Rich cows, stray cats, and stray dogs all ten rolls of film but he knew his sto- Clarkson, then director of photog- over their property. Her daugh- ry wasn’t finished. The Heaths had raphy at the Topeka Capital-Jour- ter Lucille, 43, had some mental saved up to buy a trailer and were nal, he felt made an extra effort to handicaps and named every animal moving into their new home at the challenge Wong to push his photo- on the farm after characters from end of the week. Faculty members journalism abilities. either “Gunsmoke” or “Little House granted Wong one additional roll MPW week was halfway done on the Prairie”. Jim, 41, worked of film and he was able to bring and Wong had three rejected pitch- in the laundry service of a nearby closure to his photo story. es and a clock that wasn’t slowing mental institution. Wong’s advice to current MPW down. The town was titilated by “They didn’t have a lot of money photographers: “I don’t think you Susan Ford daughter of President but they seemed pretty content with can remember everything from the Gerald Ford, and who was an MPW the way things were other than the faculty presentations and stuff but photographer that year. Her noto- fact they didn’t have a house.” various aspects of what people were riety and Secret Service team drew His story approved, Wong knew saying will come back to you when attention. that the hour round-trip of driving you’re in a situation that relates to For his own story, Wong fol- time lost each day getting to and that.” lowed a tip from the town real es- from the barn was precious. For several Thanksgivings and tate office and opted to drive miles “You have to make your subject Christmases afterwards, the Heaths sent Wong postcards keeping him up to date on goings-on around the farm and he looks back on his experience fondly. After his time at MPW, he graduated with his MA in from -Columbia in 1974. He went on to do design, photogra- phy, and to be a graphics and pho- to editor for , The Clarion-Ledger, and the Philadel- phia Inquirer. He is now a professor emeritus at Middle Tennessee State University School of Journalism where he taught visual communica- tions for 17 years. Wong has been to every MPW Above: Edna Heath for the past 5 years. He prefers to be finishes milking Miss behind the scenes and doesn’t publi- Kitty in the barn. cize the fact that he and his wife also Left: Edna Heath are the sponsors for the University bales hay. She is the of Missouri photojournalism student matriarch of her family. scholarship at MPW each year. Below: Heath family “I learned this from Angus Mc- watch “Little House Dougall, my mentor in terms of on the Prarie” in their editing. He told me that what he’s barn home. Left to trying to do is get photographers right: Edna, Lucille, and to go out and be advocates of good Jim. This is also where photojournalism...I think this pro- they sleep.. gram does that.”

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