advocacy-photography

Creativity and art usually travel hand in hand; nobody would question art as a creative field. Painters can create most anything with their brush strokes. Artists' creations form with every shade of their pencils on the paper. Some artistic types can dream up the most amazing creations and bring them to life through sculptures. All these creative works, all considered as art, and not one mention of photography. Photography as an art just does not come to mind for many people. Photography not being acknowledged and specified as art needs to change; photography should definitely have more recognition as being art. Just as much creativity happens within a simple image as with all the art mentioned above. You can't just press the shutter and create art. Taking good photos involves a lot of work: light, angles, settings, equipment, willing subjects. A person can have a great eye for an image that may have consideration as art, but that doesn't mean that person could take the same image in the same spot and have the same results. Photographs can have a creative flair that can only come from a certain photographer. The way one photographer views subjects will almost never be the same as another; everyone views life differently. Certain photographers might only use the same subjects or settings making them well known for their style of photography. Shouldn't all of this information help the art world recognize that a photograph comes to life through an artist?