Website Design for Photographers

Your photographs are the product. Everything else on the page is packaging — and most photography websites get the packaging wrong in the same three ways: they load slowly, they show far too much work, and they hide the contact form.

We design and build websites for photographers, artists and galleries. You can start from one of five ready-made designs and be live in a week or two, or we can design something from scratch around your brand.

Five designs you can try right now

These are working websites, not screenshots. Open one and use it the way a prospective client would.

What you get

• A gallery that loads. Every image is resized, compressed and lazy-loaded, so a 40-frame gallery does not cost your visitor a minute of waiting.
• A design shaped around your work. Colours, typefaces and layout tuned to the photography, not dropped on top of it.
• An enquiry path that works. Contact reachable from the header, the end of every gallery, and the footer — because the moment someone decides is rarely on your contact page.
• A CMS you can actually use. Add a gallery, swap a photograph, edit your prices. No developer required.
• SEO groundwork. Titles, descriptions, structured data, sitemap and image alt text set up properly from day one.
• Hosting and maintenance. A year of fast hosting, backups and security updates included.

Who we build for

How the build works

What it costs

Payment plans are available on both, and eCommerce can be added to the personalised tier from $1,000. For a fuller breakdown of where the money goes on any photography website — domain, hosting, platform, design and upkeep — see how much a photography website costs.

Common questions

Should I use a template or have something custom made?

If one of the five designs already fits how you work, personalising it is the better use of your money — you get the same build quality for less, sooner. Go custom when your business has a shape none of them handle: unusual galleries, print sales, multiple photographers, client proofing.

Can you rebuild my existing site?

Yes, and we set up redirects so the pages already ranking keep their position rather than turning into 404s. That step gets skipped more often than you would think, and it is the usual reason traffic falls off a cliff after a redesign.

Do I own the website?

Yes. It is built on WordPress, you get the login, and you can move it to another host whenever you like. Nothing is locked to us.

Can I sell prints through it?

Yes. eCommerce is included in the custom tier and available as an add-on from $1,000 on the personalised one. That covers prints, albums and digital downloads.

What do you need from me to start?

A rough idea of the pages you want, your logo if you have one, and a folder of photographs you are happy to lead with. We can design around placeholders if the selection is not finished.

What happens after the first year?

Hosting and maintenance continue at a monthly rate, or you take the site elsewhere. There is no penalty for leaving.

Want to look around first?

If you are still deciding what you want, we pull apart real photographers’ sites and what each one does well in the best photography websites, the best wedding photographer websites and the current website trends for photographers. If you would rather build it yourself, our comparison of photography website builders is the place to start.