ETHICS MATTERS: A commentary from NPPA’s Ethics Committee regarding the photographs of Steve McCurry | NPPA

ASMP’s Kennedy says he is not surprised that photojournalists crossing into fine art photography is “emerging as an area of potential controversy” as photographers struggle with creating images “in very different contexts for very different purposes.” As newspapers have shed some 50 percent of their staffs in the last decade, increasing numbers of photojournalists find themselves freelancing and trying to earn enough money to live something approaching a middle class lifestyle – a home mortgage, children in college, the occasional vacation. “Art serves a different function from journalism,” says Kennedy, “and gives far great latitude for artistic expression.”