Kennerly is alone in maintaining his career at the very highest levels while creating an uninterrupted visual record of a half-century of history. With his first photograph published in 1962, Kennerly started his career in the black & white pre-motordrive era. He not only survived the war in Vietnam, but also the independent contractor transition of the 1980s when he was able to maintain ownership of his photographs. He continued shooting and was able to seamlessly make the shift from film to digital in the early 2000’s at a time when many of his cohorts were ready to retire or found themselves unemployed with the decline of print journalism. And Kennerly continues to add to his archive, currently covering his 12th presidential election, this time for CNN.