what is conceptual photography

Grasping what concept is both by definition and by context is a challenge after watching this video. Hearing from different people’s perspectives, I can see each point and how they view the word concept/conceptual. I agree that the real question should be what isn’t conceptual. This is because concept requires one to view the image in a certain way. And yet, I feel as if there should be standards because of my education through art. Within my classes there are these rules and standards to what art can be, and yet here is this art that has no true standards. I, myself, struggle to come to terms that most of my recent work is conceptual even though I don’t understand some conceptual art because of how far abstracted the final result appears to be. I believe the word concept can be correlated to the word postmodernism in which both words are difficult to explain and can be explained in different viewpoints because of individual perspectives.