UNION — This week, one Franklin County town is a training ground for photojournalists from around the world.

Union is hosting the Missouri Photo Workshop for its 77th anniversary. The program was founded in 1949 with the goal to “show truth with a camera” by documenting small-town Missouri.

The workshop’s founders created the gathering with deep roots. Clifton C. Edom, a photo professor at the University of Missouri; U.S. Farm Security Administration Director Roy Stryker, and photographer Russell Lee wanted to provide a workshop that would teach students the art of creating images like those “gritty, content-rich photographs” made by the photo unit of the pre-World War II FSA.

“Now, we have one of the largest continuing archives of what rural Missouri looks like,” said Brian Kratzer, th

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