There’s a lot of talk about finding your style and making your work distinctive … and don’t get me wrong, that should absolutely be top priority. Your work should speak for itself and represent you as an artist. If you’re in business, you want clients to come to you for your vision, to love your work so much that they trust you implicitly as an artist behind the camera … not because you’re the least expensive or shortest drive amongst a group of photographers whose work all pretty much looks the same. And if you’re not in business … well, you have the luxury of complete creative freedom and artistic risk – hopefully you’re taking advantage of that!
What about your online presence? Are you using your site as another opportunity to set yourself apart? Does it enhance your portfolio and contribute to an overall viewing experience that speaks to your style and vision? Or does your site just kind of blend into the thousands of other sites out there?
Take a look at these ten photographers’ striking site designs and note how their sties enhance the work of the photographers, advance their branding, and even tell you a little something about who they are as artists.
1. Jasmine Star
9. Chase Jarvis
11. Simon Hoegsberg
12. Justine Ungaro
14. The Rhoads
15. Simon Plestenjak
16. Chenin Boutwell
18. Meg Borders
19. Tony D’Orio
Who doesn’t feel inspired to spruce their sites up a little after all of that?
What are some of the most memorable photography site designs you’ve seen out there? Share them with us in the comments!
Megan Squires should totally be in there! :) She has an amazing promo video linked into her site that most people dont have. SO unique! :)
Thanks for the line up!
Oooh… I love checking out new sites! Great post! :)
I really like that magazine style. Thanks for sharing :)
Some of these are so cluttered and busy that it’s hard to determine where to go as a visitor. From a purely marketing perspective (vs. cool aesthetics) a lot of these designs are probably not doing good things for the photographers’ business. Sure, it’s cool to have an artistic or “different” blog but it’s still a business instrument to drive leads and sales. At the end of the day, all photographer sites needs to successfully do three things:
1) Showcase the photographer’s photos
2) Give a sense of the photographer’s style/personality through design
3) Clearly drive the visitor to action (usually contact)
That’s what photographers as business people, not just creative souls, should be focused on.
What a great list of websites! I loved looking through them!!
What a fun and inspiring post! Can’t wait to check these all out-lots of people that I’m not familiar with!
Really enjoyed this blog post.Really thank you! Really Great.
Oh my gosh! I am loving Meg Borders website. What beautiful work! Love her style <3