This question was brought up in my last post – Is it stock or is it art?

This is a tough one. What is stock to me, may be art to you and vice versa.

I like to keep my stock and my art in completely separate boxes. Compartmentalized. My art asks questions, maybe gives a few answers, and definitely pushes boundaries. I hope it makes people feel something, even if it is confused. My stock on the other hand, are point and shoot images that could have been taken by anyone. I see a lot of photographs like this floating around on the internet, on twitter and facebook and the like, that are labeled as fine art and I shrug my shoulders. I don’t see it. As art, that is.

I’m sure that the answer to these questions will also vary according to age, generation, or the fine art education level and sensibilities of the reader.

In the end, whether or not it is stock or it is art is totally subjective to the photographer, and probably to the viewer.

How do you decide in which box to put your photographs? Do you only shoot stock? Do you only make fine art? Do you have an opinion on this? Leave it in the comments below!