What is fine art photography?
On thing is always clear whenever varying definitions of fine art photography are prospected: “fine art photography is not seeing the reality of the setting, but seeing how the artist behind the camera perceives it. Art itself is used to distract us from our reality, to bring us somewhere new”
There are many different contextual areas of photography, from journalistic photography to commercial and social media photography; however, what sets fine art photography apart is that we admire it the same way we do with deftly brushed paintings.
Paintings show us the clarity of the painter’s eyes while he shows us his viewpoint.
Same with taking a picture: the photographer shows us his viewspoint, adapted to his accruing. Separating us from true reality.
The photographer also tries to spread a message, an emotion, thoughts imprinted into the photography itself.
Some say that pictures show the reality, but such is not the case with fine art photography.
Fine art photography shows us the perception of the photographer, helping us grow closer to them as well as the beauty of the scene.
By using different lenses, filters, and ways to develop the photo, we see what we’re told to see just as we make up our own mind about it through our viewpoint.
Have you ever wondered what it is like to see through someone else’s eyes?
To experience what they have?
Joy and wonder precede us and pictures show us our potential.
Think of each photograph as a photography book.
Connected somehow to everything else around it.
A photography book has a deeper meaning or message, a reason to why all the pictures are pieced together in one book.
Fine art photography brings everyone together by it’s use in restaurants, museum’s and libraries.
Everyone has encountered fine art photography when only a select few can see a Picasso painting in real life.
Bring the world together, show the life around you.
What makes fine art photography isn’t the picture, it’s who snaps it.
Photos by Felipe Santana, Scott Walsh, Miguel Salgado, Kevin Hou.
