 He also established the News Pictures of the Year Competition and Exhibition, now Pictures of the Year International (POYi), in 1944, incorporating the College Photographer of the Year competition the next year.In 1949, the Edoms founded the first Missouri Photo Workshop to teach methods of research, observation, and timing in developing photostories of rural Missouri towns.Roy Stryker, Russell Lee, Angus McDougall, among many other of America's leading newspaper and magazine photographers and editors, have served as faculty at the workshop.