本研究採批判性視野，以質性研究的「參與觀察法」與「深度訪談法」探討攝影記者的勞動過程，分析報禁解除後，攝影記者的勞動處境與專業倫理意識型態。研究結果發現，新聞專業倫理隨著新聞商品化逐漸淪喪，進而使攝影記者失去職業主體性，並擺盪在勞動者與專業者的泥沼中。 藉由攝影記者的勞動經驗分析，指出專業勞動者若沒有相對應的勞動條件保障專業，專業價值只能是商業利益的交換價值，甚至會進一步壓迫與剝削專業勞動者。

This study primarily focuses on the labor process of photojournalists by participant observation and in-depth interviews to analyze photojournalists’ working conditions and professional ethics after the newspapers embargo had been relieved. The results indicated that journalism ethics was falling along with the news commercialization, and it has caused photojournalists to lose professional independence, and to sway between the identity of being the workers or the professionals. By analyzing the photojournalists’ labor process, it has been found that the professional workers’ values were merely based on the value of business interests. According to this reality, it may be causing further oppression and exploitation of the professional workers, if there is no corresponding working conditions to safeguard the professionals.