Is photography considered fine art?

I personally believe that the two are different forms of art, although both are in the form of a picture to express the author's creative intent. Traditional fine art refers to painting, with a brush and paper (or canvas and other carriers) as the medium, to express the author's subjective ideas; and photography is with a strong realism, in addition to the use of image processing software post-production and other special circumstances, photographic works of things and their original nature is very similar to more objective than paintings, more without prejudice, which is the biggest difference between them.