Gallery: Photo Workshops Help Students Beat the Odds in Terrible Photojournalism Market
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*Hunter Downy, 3, of Chester, Illinois, plays with his toy cars while family friend Raymond Stern enjoys a beer on the couch.* *Photo: Jon-Erik Bradford*
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*Jared McCormick, 10, of Ellis Grove, Illinois, plays with his cap gun at the family farm. McCormick is the fourth generation to grow up at the farm and helps plant and harvest the crop. “People say he is just like me,” said Jared’s father, Jack McCormick. “I call him my little me.”* *Photo: Nathan Hoefert*
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*Dianna Mueller, owner of Pinky's Sugarland in Chester, Illinois, joked around while a new customer tried to decide which of the many different Cake Pops she would like to purchase on her first visit.* *Photo: Makenzie Qualls*
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*Scott McDonugh walked into work at Gilster Mary Lee in Chester, Illinois. Gilster Mary Lee is a private-label food manufacturer headquartered in Chester. McDonugh has been working as a supervisor at Gilster for nearly 26 years.* *Photo: Abiigail Mbuvi*
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*Olivia Trost, 6, of Ballwin, Missouri, and her brother Ben, 4, play in front of a Popeye mural in downtown Chester, Illinois.* *Photo: Katarina Kearns*
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*Brandon Fisher, of Chester, Illinois, finishes up work welding a hole in the hull of a barge at the Lone Eagle loading dock along the Mississippi River. Fisher works for Knight Hawk Coal, a local mining company.* *Photo: Steve Matzker*
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*Rodney Eggemeyer of Ellis Grove, Illinois. and his girlfriend Sylvia Mayberry of Perryville, Missouri, enjoyed an evening together at a county music dance held at the American Legion in Chester, Illinois.* *Photo: Jamie Birchfiled*
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*Students wait for a chemical reaction during chemistry lab at Chester High School.* *Photo: Brooke Stevens*
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*Jennifer Gonzalez, a senior at Southern Illinois University, photographed students during recess at Chester Elementary School.* *Photo: Samantha Vaughn*
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*A young girl's hair is braided by a friend as others wait in line during recess friday morning at Chester Grade School.* *Photo: Jennifer Gonzalez*
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*Cameron Gasser, 7, of Chester, Illinois, receives help from his teacher Dixie Brown at the Grace Church in Chester. The church provides a form of school called accelerated Christian education that focuses on individual needs of children from kindergarten to twelfth grade. “It’s important to us that these twenty children are being taught at the right level for them and are being taught from the bible,” Principle Jon Brown said.* *Photo: Lynnette Oostmeyer*
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*Six-year-old Isabella Picou, daughter of Teddy and Tannis Picou, runs around outside her house. The Picou family is one of the last remaining residents on Kaskaskia Island, an island across the Mississippi River from Chester, Illinois. Many of Kaskaskia's residents fled from the area after a flood in 1993.* *Photo: Nicole Hester*
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*Mike and Debbie Brooks, the owners of the Spinach Can Collectibles in Chester, Illinois, pose for a portrait. Spinach Can Collectibles is a Popeye gift shop and museum, located in the old Chester Opera House where the creator of Popeye, Elzie Crisler Segar, worked as a film projectionist before becoming a cartoonist. The Brooks display Popeye collectables that they have purchased from all over the world in the shop.* *Photo: Ai Saito*
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*Mike Miner recreats a scene from squirrel hunting that morning for Dan Campomizzi after the two shared a plate of fried squirrel at the Chester VFW, Kaskaskia Outpost.* *Photo: Eric Ginnard*
