CAPTION: A steady stream of people flowed through the old courtroom on the second floor of the Livingston County Library Saturday to view more than 400 photographs of Chillicothe's people and places. The photographs represented the culmination of a week-long photo workshop which is a part of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Each of the 40 photo stories may be found on the internet at www.mophotoworkshop.org. In addition to this year's displays there is also a multimedia tribute to the 1963 workshop in Chillicothe.

C-T Photo / Catherine Stortz Ripley

The Missouri Photo Workshop - an intense week-long study in the art of photojournalism - concluded Saturday with more than 400 photographs on display at the Livingston County library. A steady stream of people flowed through the historic courtroom of the library - which once served as a federal building - to view photographs that were taken the previous week as well as some 100 pictures from 1963, the last time the Missouri Photo Workshop was in Chillicothe. There were people waiting at the door when the exhibit opened at 10 a.m. and many lingered well beyond the 2 p.m. scheduled closing.

On display were glimpses of people's lives - a family-run meat locker, a muffler shop, an Amish youth, the birth of a baby boy, a priest, a farmer, a family struggling with an ailing child, and much, much more. There were 40 stories in all captured through camera lenses.

With their photographs, the 40 workshop participants tried to reveal the heart of the Chillicothe community, according to Jim Curley, a co-director of the Missouri Photo Workshop. “We did a pretty good job of documenting Chillicothe,” Curley said. “It's not perfect, though.” Curley said the workshop, one of the country's most premier photo workshops, utilizes a shotgun approach, in that the photographers typically arrive in the hosting town on a Sunday and must have a photo story subject identified within a day or two.

Participants are expected to have three or four solid ideas to present to the faculty - a group of veteran editors and photojournalists representing top publications in the news industry. This year's faculty were from such publications as: The Oregonian, National Geographic, TIME magazine, Roanoke Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News and Washington Post. Not all story ideas are approved.

Sadie Quarrier, a senior photo editor for National Geographic, was among participants in this year's workshop. The workshop was headquartered at the Alaska House (the former Winklemeyer building) at 455 Locust Street. Use of the building was donated by owners Alicia and Bruce King, of Chillicothe.

Each of the 40 photo stories may be found on the Internet at http://www.mophotoworkshop.org/59/. In addition to this year's stories, there is also a multimedia show featuring the 1963 exhibit.

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