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Photography is whatever you want it to be, for me it's escape. All of the world's problems disappear when I'm trying to get a shot, or when I'm shitfaced and set my camera up on a salt flat and sleep for 5 hours, and only remember to close the shutter because I woke up and threw up.
I shoot for myself I could give a shit what other people think and I think that's a huge problem today, people are shooting for likes and retweets, vapid social media, they're shooting to get noticed by strangers and people they will never meet, I could give a shit less. These are not true artists nor are they photographers, they are invaders, they are clout chasers who want to be noticed and be popular like it's fucking high school.
Photography is the closest thing man has to a time machine, you can freeze a moment in time and look back on it forever.
Is photography art? I don't know, it's whatever you want it to be, it's a medium like watercolor or stipple, what defines art these days is trivial when you have people paying for banana peels taped to walls in an art museum. None of this matters, go outside and take pictures.
