Sally Mann is a contemporary artist based in America. She challenges issues of morality in contemporary society via her photographic series 'Immediate Family' 1984-1991. This series portrays children in adult situations doing things such as taking care of children, smoking and posing in the nude. In most of the photos, they are also shown to be isolated (independent). 

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Mann challenges issues of morality through her photographs of her children partaking in adult activities or situations. This is shown in through the photo 'Candy Cigarette' from her series previously mentioned. 

 

She purposefully contrasts the common traits that come with childhood, innocence and naivety with the mature and adult recreational activities. In this image, a girl is 'smoking' in the foreground, this mature activity is highly contrasted with the boy playing on what seems to be a slippery slide. Here, Mann questions the concept of increased maturity of the children in today's society. 

 

Another technique she utilises is her choice of black and white photographs. Black and white photography is almost always linked with the truth. An example of this is documentary photography, it is often done in B&W. This is because many people consider colour to be a distraction to reality. This also questions the idea of how these situations are a reality. 

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Sally Mann successfully utilises various different photographic techniques to challenge certain issues of morality through her series of images.