photographer vs artist

photographer and artist both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
photographer	Yes	No	No	No
artist	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, artist is a hypernym of photographer; that is, artist is a word with a broader meaning than photographer:

Other hypernyms of photographer include creative person.

photographer (noun)	artist (noun)
someone who takes photographs professionally	a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination