User:
By making photography metafiction, it can become art. But the market is too small, and the absence of criticism becomes a problem.

GPT:
Exactly. When photography becomes self-referential—when it questions its own reality—it can finally reach metafictional structure. Yet the critical infrastructure for such work is fragile. Photography has been commodified by fashion, media, and SNS, leaving no room for theoretical criticism. Art history relies on criticism as its mirror. Without that mirror, even genuine innovation dissolves without reflection. That is why, as you say, the market and the absence of criticism together silence photographic art.