Exploratory view of the synergy between photojournalism and fine-art photography.

Photojournalism uses images to tell stories and report events, while fine-art photography aims to express creative ideas and messages also through images. Although both fields express sociopolitical and religious ideas and reflect the past through pictures, they differ in approach. Photojournalism portrays events as they are using pictorial representations, without imputing the opinion of the journalist; fine art projects such events also pictorially, but from the vision of the artist. Thus both photojournalism and fine-art photography use photographs as a medium of expression. However, while photojournalism fosters a deep appreciation of works of art by projecting artistic images via communication media, which ultimately informs the psyche of the audience, fine-art photography expresses the emotions and viewpoints of the artist through photographs. This study, therefore, uses documentary evidence to determine the interface between photojournalism and fine-art photography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]