Difference between Present-day and Contemporary

Present-day

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: in existence now; current or contemporary

Contemporary

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: from the same time period, coexistent in time.modern, of the present age.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Someone living at the same time.Any creature living at the same time.Something existing at the same time.

Example sentence: I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette.