Photography websites can offer lots of inspiration for photographers of any levels. We can all learn from other photographer’s work, no matter what genre of photography we work in.
We collected 42 of our favourite photography websites online right now. Take a look at these portfolios to find new ideas for showcasing the very best of your photography work.
Best Photography Websites
Whether you’re looking for inspiration or checking out the competition, photography websites are the best resource.
You can see all the best work photographers have to offer, allowing you to feed your creativity. Browsing the galleries of these fantastic professionals will have you eager to pick up your camera and start shooting.
You’ll also get a good idea of what a professional photography website should look like. This will help you if you are interested in building your own to display your best photography work.
In the section below, we’re looking at the best photography websites of established professionals. If you’re looking to build your own photography website, you need to see our articles on the best website builders and best web hosting services.
The list isn’t ranked, so use it by what you need. For layouts that hand one photograph the whole screen, study Dolly Ave, James Tye and Tom Hull. For grids a visitor can scan in seconds, look at Amelia Allen, Deanie Chen and Adam Bird. If you sell prints, presets or courses alongside your work, Gray Malin, Pat Kay, Brandon Woelfel and Levon Biss all show how to fit a shop into a portfolio without burying the pictures. And if you want a site that does one thing only, Cass Bird and Haris Nukem get by on a handful of links.
Tom Hull
Tom Hull is a landscape and advertising photographer based in the UK. Many of his photographs involve people who are not professional models. This way, his shots are spontaneous and showcase true emotions.
Tom worked with clients such as Google, Nike and The Tate. What we like about his website are the options to see his work as individual images and also as thumbnails in a grid.
Amelia Allen
Amelia Allen is a lifestyle, documentary and portrait photographer from Somerset. She lives and works now in London. Amelia started her career as a fashion photographer and developed an iconic style.
She turned to documentary photography later on. One of her projects is about exploring women’s role in society. She worked with clients like Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, The Daily Mail and Forbes.
Her site showcases her images in a stylish grid that you can easily flick through.
Adam Bird
Adam Bird is a wedding, fine-art and fashion photographer based in Birmingham. His clients’ list includes Disney, Adobe and Panasonic.
Besides his work for his clients, he also has a Harry Potter-themed series. His photography website looks like a fairy tale book. Take a look for yourself!
Haris Nukem
Haris Nukem is a fashion and commercial photographer based in London. He was born in Bosnia and arrived in the UK as a young asylum seeker. He finds inspiration in how the world and our environment shapes our personalities.
In 2019, Nukem had an exhibition called ‘Faith’ in London’s Soho. He asked for a ‘pay what you can afford’ entrance fee and all the money went to the charity Help Refugees.
His images are often provocative and unusual. This is the way he wants to convey his messages. His photography website has a colorful slider gallery, showing only one or two photos at a time.
Anya Anti
Anya Anti is a New York-based photographer and visual artist. Originally from Ukraine, Anya’s work combines portraiture and digital manipulation to create truly original and thought-provoking images.
Using a soft, slightly cold color pallet, her images are ethereal and dreamlike. There’s a sense of mystery and magic that encourages the viewer’s imagination to play and explore places they may never have ventured before.
Often using self-portrait photography as a means of self-exploration, her work is always personal and honest. We see the artist’s vulnerability through her work, which only makes her work more enticing.
We were lucky enough to work with Anya on our collaborative project, Creative Portrait Concepts. In this fabulous ebook, she shares her secrets and gives the inside story of some of her most celebrated works.
Mathieu Stern
Mathieu Stern is a professional photographer and filmmaker born in Paris, France.
He has a passion for vintage lenses and for experimenting with photography techniques. You can find Stern’s work on platforms like Peta Pixel, Adobe News and F Stoppers.
Mathieu has a YouTube channel which focuses on photographic experimentation. He is also a photography and photoshop teacher in three Parisian design schools. His images are often surreal results of different techniques.
Emanuele Satolli
An Italian photographer based in Istanbul, Emanuele Satolli is one of the world’s leading photojournalists. His work has been published in prestigious publications such as TIME, Rolling Stone, and the Washington Post.
As an intrepid photojournalist, Satolli has documented some of the major socio-political events of the last decade. Whether it’s Libya, Palestine, or the Ukraine, he has been in amongst the action, capturing the events in real time.
His website isn’t for the squeamish. The images are harrowing and heart-wrenching. But they are also honest, which is why Satolli has become one of the eminent photojournalists of our time.
Pedro Oliveira
Pedro Oliveira is a photographer from Brazil who moved to the US at the age of 22. Photography was his hobby that evolved into a true passion.
Pedro won several awards for his work and held many exhibitions. He takes portraits, lifestyle and travel photographs, and the commercial half of his site now leans hard into automotive and brand work for the likes of Toyota, Acura and Universal Studios. His photography website stays clear and easy to navigate.
Sanz Lena
Sanz Lena is a fashion and beauty photographer who came up in Paris and now works out of Toronto. Thanks to his travels around the world, he developed a different artistic look. He likes to experiment with new artistic concepts and techniques.
He takes beauty, fashion, editorial and still life photographs, and the site now carries motion work and his teaching alongside them. The layout stays classy and minimalistic, so the pictures keep the focus.
Carianne Older
Carianne Older has blazed a trail in the photography world over the last few years. Her unique, attention-grabbing style is fabulous, kitsch, and unashamedly sexy. She doesn’t hold back, and her images have an intensity that grabs you by the balls.
Costumes, set styling, and interesting themes are all important ingredients in a recipe that produces vibrant images alive with style, humour, and sexual energy. Older has a more-is-more approach, but every detail is well-considered and fits perfectly in whatever she’s doing.
Carianne used to shoot exclusively on film, as her old moniker of PeggyShootFilm suggests. Now she works in analog and digital, but her work is no less dazzling.
Her client list is impressive and still growing as more brands and celebs reach out to her. Her top clients include Christina Aguilera, Playboy, Puma, and Luna Magazine. She’s also worked as a tour photographer, following Charlie Puth on his North American Tour.
Ariana Jordan
Ariana Jordan is a professional photographer from Kentucky. She likes to tell love stories with her wedding and portrait photography.
Her website has a beautiful design, and her portfolio includes rich, bold and moody photos. When you take a look at her website, you see colors, emotions and stories.
Cassandra Ladru
Cassandra Ladru is a wedding and lifestyle photographer, working in Australia. She has a timeless and honest photography style. Cassandra likes to create visual stories and focus on unseen details.
Her creative work has been published in magazines like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. Her website has a journalistic atmosphere, allowing us to see intimate and detailed moments.
Jason Cox
Jason Cox is a creative photographer from Boston. He has a background in live music, sports, creative portraiture and wedding photography. Jason is always open to new challenges and keeps improving his photography style.
His clients include Nike, English Premier League, Converse and Jack Daniels. His photography website showcases his diverse talent.
Rosie Matheson
Rosie Matheson is one of the hottest young portrait photographers working right now. Hailing from London, UK, she made her name by producing exquisite portraits on film.
Matheson’s portraits are intimate and warm. They are colorful but muted, edgy without being overtly in your face. Looking at her portraits, you feel like you are chilling with a friend. Nothing feels posed or overproduced.
She’s a master of exposure. That might sound silly as all pros can expose their images properly, but just look at her gallery to see what I mean. There’s a softness, especially in the skin tones, that gives the portraits a relaxed, laid-back air.
Julia and Gil
Julia and Gil are partners in life as well as in work, and they shoot weddings all over Europe. What they promise is photographs that feel editorial without the couple having to perform for the camera. They guide when guiding helps and stay out of the way when it does not.
They aim to capture the real connection between couples, so their pictures avoid the poses that make most wedding galleries look alike. Their site backs that up with full galleries rather than teasers, a films section and a blog that writes up individual weddings. It is a good model if you sell an experience as much as a set of photographs.
Cass Bird
Cass Bird is one of this generation’s top fashion photographers. Her photographs have graced the covers and pages of iconic publications like Vogue and Wall Street Journal.
Bird has an elegant style but isn’t afraid to push boundaries and press buttons. Her images are fun and playful but always elegant.
Her sleek and stylish photography website is the perfect host for her portfolio, which demonstrates her blend of modern and classic styles. Cass is quickly becoming a living legend in the world of fashion photography.
Gray Malin
Gray Malin is a fine art photographer and author from the US. He is known for his iconic pastel photos and aerial pictures, shot from helicopters over beaches, deserts and ski slopes all over the world.
His website is like looking at dreamy postcards from beautiful destinations, and it has since grown into a full shop selling framed prints, books and home décor. It is the clearest example on this list of a portfolio and a store sharing one domain without either getting in the other’s way.
The Hearnes
One of our favourite photography websites belongs to The Hearnes. They are a couple who takes adventure wedding and elopement photography.
They believe that a couple’s wedding day is their biggest adventure. But it can happen at more extreme locations than a ballroom.
Their website shows great examples of the long and epic days they have with their clients. Their whole life is an adventure, and they offer not only a photoshoot but a lifetime experience.
Their photography is the perfect combination of adventure and romance.
Will Bremridge
Will Bremridge is a commercial and editorial photographer from London. He is shooting for magazines, agencies and brands. Thanks to his assignments, he has traveled a lot.
He has a vibrant and colorful style that appears all around his website. His work was published in magazines like British GQ, The Telegraph and The Sunday Times Magazine.
Diane Villadsen
Diane Villadsen is a fashion and portrait photographer from the San Francisco Bay Area. She has one of the most cheerful and colorful photography websites. Her photos have cinematic perspectives and dream-like tones.
Diane likes to teach and inspire others through her photography. Her website and photographs make you feel like living the California dream.
Grace Chuang
Grace Chuang is a photographer, designer, storyteller, biologist and engineer. She carved her own path and likes to focus on the mystery and wonder of in-betweens. She is now a partner and creative director at the science-and-design studio Oscillator.
Her site has moved with her. It now reads as a creative studio portfolio, split into creative direction, art direction and photography, with long case studies behind projects like Grow Magazine for Ginkgo Bioworks.
Look at it if your photography sits inside wider creative work and you need one site to carry both. If all you want is a straight image gallery, the simpler portfolios on this list will serve you better.
Reuben Wu
Reuben Wu is a multidisciplinary artist who arrived at photography sideways. Born in Liverpool, he trained as an industrial designer, then spent a decade in the band Ladytron and photographed the tours as a diary. A trip to Svalbard in 2011, shot through the polar winter when the sun never fully rises, turned the habit into the work.
He is best known for lighting landscapes from the air. Series like Lux Noctis and Aeroglyphs put a light source above deserts, dunes and volcanoes and hold the shutter open long enough to record what it does. His prints are held by the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA.
His website is the quiet opposite of the pictures. A plain text menu leads to the selected works, the commissions and the monographs, and the front page is a short list of what he has on right now. Study it if your work is project-based and you want each series to stand on its own instead of blurring into one feed. It is the wrong model if your selling point is volume.
Alan Schaller
Alan Schaller is a London photographer and Leica ambassador, and one of the reference points for contemporary black and white street photography. His pictures run on hard contrast, graphic shapes and light treated as a subject in its own right.
He has exhibited internationally and spent more than a decade building things for other photographers. He co-founded Street Photography International, and he founded Irys, a photography-first app that also runs book publishing, events and brand collaborations.
His website is a slideshow first and a menu second. Big images cycle across the full width of the screen, and the whole site comes down to three links: about, series and featured projects. This is how to present a body of work that is one strong style rather than a spread of genres.
Tim Flach
Tim Flach photographs animals the way a portrait photographer shoots people. He goes after the power and the vulnerability in a horse, a bird or a dog, and the pictures are built to argue for conservation rather than simply to record a species.
He has five main bodies of work, seven award-winning books and exhibitions in natural history museums from Paris to Beijing. Equus came out in 2008, Dog Gods in 2010, More Than Human in 2012, and Endangered in 2017, made with conservationists including Jonathan Baillie, then chief scientist at the National Geographic Society.
His website is organised by series rather than by year or by client, and each project opens with an artist statement before the animal photography starts. That layout suits a photographer who works in long projects and wants a visitor to read one of them properly. It would look thin over a stream of one-off commissions.
Liselotte Fleur
Liselotte Fleur is a portrait and fashion photographer. She works for designers, brands, stores and magazines. She creates editorial and campaign photography for her clients.
Fleur likes to tell a story about fashion and her models. Her photography website is clear and classy. You can click on her projects and see the photos showcased in a creative arrangement.
Pat Kay
Pat Kay is an award-winning freelance photographer based in Sydney, Australia. He has a passion for travel and adventure. His photographs explore the contrast between nature and urban.
He worked with clients like Nike, Adidas, Samsung and Toyota. His site has grown a long way past a portfolio. It now carries courses, Japan travel guides, presets, wallpapers and a print store, all hung on the same clean white layout that keeps his travel images in front.
Chris Zielecki
Chris Zielecki is a photographer based in Hamburg, Germany, who has built his whole body of work around the Nordic countries. He has been going back to Scandinavia since he was 16, and his pictures show the rough, barren side of it rather than the postcard side.
His website still reads like a set of travel diaries, and clicking a cover picture opens the full set from that trip. It now sells the photo tours and workshops he runs in those places, next to a portrait and boudoir section. If you want to see how a photographer turns one region into a business, this is the site to read.
Lauren Naylor
Lauren Naylor is a photographer, creative director and cinematographer based in Los Angeles, USA.
Her photographs have moody undertones and dreamy landscapes. Lauren considers herself a visual creator with a strong emphasis on expressive storytelling.
Her clients include Prada, British Vogue and Levi’s. Her work is showcased in a creative grid.
Dory Younes
Dory Younes is a travel photographer and videographer born in Beirut, Lebanon. Her style evolved throughout the years, from creative conceptual work to more life-like photographs.
Her photography website is quite dynamic, and the pictures are changing from time to time. It even has an interactive chat pop-up in the right corner. It’s a great source of inspiration if you’re looking for something different.
Tayler Smith
Tayler Smith is a professional photographer based in New York City. She takes dog portraits, product, still life and beauty photographs. She worked with clients covering a wide range of industries.
Her photography website is colorful and fun to look at. There are always two pictures occupying the whole screen, showing off her vivid style.
Deanie Chen
Deanie Chen is a freelance photographer based in New York City. She has one of the most stylish photography websites in any genre.
Her photos were published by People Magazine, Spotify and Billboard. On her photography website, she has a section dedicated to her 35mm work. She also takes live music and portrait photographs.
Her photographs are showcased in a simple yet effective grid layout.
Brandon Woelfel
Brandon Woelfel is a photographer based in New York. Many of his photos have surreal or dreamy effects. His website is quite informative and a great source of inspiration.
There is a useful section listing the gear he shoots with, plus his presets, photobooks and a print store. Between them they show the whole business a photographer can build on one recognisable look.
Luke Bateman
Luke Bateman is a photographer and cinematographer from England. He specialises in concert photography and music video work. His photography career started with a 35mm camera and evolved into digital photography.
Luke likes to capture the energy and emotions of a concert or a gig. His photography website splits the work into concerts, band promo shoots and video, and shows it in a simple grid layout that lets the photos pop out from the white background.
Danilo and Sharon
Danilo and Sharon are another power couple who shoot wedding and editorial photography. They claim to be “aesthetically and holistically conscious wedding photography artists“. They create images that aren’t traditional and that provoke convention.
Their photography style is influenced by Eastern European heritage and their background in fashion and advertising.
Danilo and Sharon are available for travel, and their wedding photographs are often inspired by the destinations.
Sean McCoy
Sean McCoy is a commercial and documentary photographer, cinematographer and filmmaker based in Washington, D.C. He worked with clients like Banana Republic, Henri Bendel and the New York Fashion Week.
His aim is to create a platform of expression and storytelling for voices underrepresented in the media. His website has narrowed to three things since we first listed it: film, photography and a short about page. If you shoot both stills and video, it is a tidy example of holding the two together without building two separate sites.
Dolly Ave
Dolly Ave is an award-winning photographer and meditative musician. She worked with brands like Red Bull, Nike, Adidas and Converse.
Her photography website lets her pictures talk for themselves, without too many written words. When you check her portfolio, you see either a full-screen photograph or two pictures filling out the frame. Simple yet effective.
James Tye
James Tye is a travel and lifestyle photographer based in London. He won several awards, and his clients include Berlitz, Sunday Times Travel and National Geographic Traveller.
We like how his photography website shows one big photograph at a time. In the right corner, you also have the option to look at the photos in a grid layout.
Mike Kelley
Mike Kelley is an architectural photographer based in Los Angeles. He received many awards and worked with brands like Tesla Motors, Herman Miller and BBC.
His website is clear, simple and puts his fantastic architecture photography in the spotlight.
Giles Clement
Giles Clement is a portrait artist and photographer based in New York. He is always looking for new partners and new faces to conquer new territories.
Giles has worked with clients like Red Bull, Vanity Fair and W Magazine. His website is like looking through a photostream, and you can spend a lot of time admiring his photographs.
Emilee McGovern
Emilee McGovern is a Florida-based photojournalist and editorial photographer. She found harmony between these two very different genres and uses them to express herself and the truth.
Her photography website is divided into photojournalism and editorial sections. You will notice in both sections that Emilee puts a great emphasis on connecting with her subjects.
Levon Biss
Levon Biss is a British photographer from London. During his career, he experimented in various photography genres. His background includes portraiture, documentary and sports photography.
One of his most famous series, Microsculpture, takes macro photography to the next level. He created unreal magnifications of tiny insects, combining art and science. His site now holds Extinct & Endangered and The Hidden Beauty of Seed & Fruits alongside it, with books, films and a running list of exhibitions.
Bobby Bandz
Bobby Bandz is an award-winning wedding photographer and videographer located in Washington DC. He also shoots portrait, fashion and street photography. Bobby also captures travel and lifestyle photos.
His website is simple and easy to navigate. It lists the different genres, and you can look at individual photographs or smaller pictures in a grid layout.
Conclusion
We chose these photography websites for two reasons. Because they belong to talented photographers and because they have a creative layout or simple design.
These photography websites are great sources of inspiration. You can find new ideas and techniques. They also make you realise that many successful photographers experiment in various genres.
Moreover, they provide an overview of different website lookouts that you can choose for yourself.
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