PhotoShelter Press Room
PhotoShelter Features
PhotoShelter offers one complete solution that includes a professional photo portfolio website and all the tools needed to build a photo business:
- Website. Go live in minutes with 10 website themes and no coding required, integrate with WordPress blog themes by Graph Paper Press, or custom design your own look atop our powerful tools.
- Market. Drive website traffic with built-in social media marketing and search engine optimization tools, embeddable slideshows and gallery invitations.
- Sell. Sell prints, products and downloads using our e-commerce tools. Use our fully integrated print vendors or invite your own favorite vendor to receive orders through our Print Vendor Network. Sell rights managed stock photos with our built-in pricing calculator.
- Deliver. Get files in your clients’ hands fast with built in delivery tools including FTP and private download access.
- Manage. A true searchable online archive helps you backup, secure, and access your images anywhere, anytime.
Plans start at $9.99 per month. Check out more PhotoShelter features.
Company Snapshot
- Over 70,000 registered photographers use PhotoShelter.
- PhotoShelter was founded in 2005 by Allen Murabayashi, Grover Sanschagrin, Thom Chin, and Jeffrey Arnold - entrepreneurs with technology and photography experience. Meet our team
- PhotoShelter is based in New York City.
- There are 18 fulltime employees.
- PhotoShelter members come from over 90 countries.
- General Catalyst Partners invested $4 million in PhotoShelter in 2007.
Helpful links
PhotoShelter blog
Product tour
Plans & pricing
Find photos & photographers
Photographer profiles
Upcoming webinars & events
Featured Media Coverage
Professional Photographer Magazine
SEO Makeovers: Looking Good for Google
Professional Photographer Magazine
Help Them Find You
Digital Photo Pro Magazine
Money While You Sleep: E-Commerce for Professional Photographers
Free photography business guides
PhotoShelter offers a library of free, downloadable guides covering key business topics for photographers. These are all comprehensive research reports containing actionable strategies to help photographers generate more income.
- Marketing Yourself with Photo Books
- The Freelancer's Online Marketing Blueprint
- The Photographer's Guide to Selling Like a Pro
- Starting a Photography Business
- Facebook Fan Pages for Photographer
- Email Marketing for Photographers
- What Buyers Want from Photographers
We’re experts in these topics
Contact us anytime for interviews/ point of view on:
- Photography portfolio websites
- Marketing & promoting a photography business
- Selling photography & photo services
- Delivering photography to clients online
- Search engine optimization
- Social media marketing
- Small business/ entrepreneurship
PhotoShelter team members frequently speak at industry events on the above topics. Our audiences have included the National Press Photographers Association, the American Society of Media Photographers, the American Photographic Artists, the Picture Archive Council of America, Editorial Photographers, the American Society of Picture Professionals, B&H Photo, Adorama Camera, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, the PhotoPlus Expo, the Telluride Photo Festival, the Palm Springs Photo Festival, the British Journal of Photography Vision 10, the News Photographers Association of Canada, the University Photographers Association of America, and various photo schools.
What photographers are saying
about PhotoShelter
"We've sold more prints online this year than in any other previous year, and most of those print buyers were unknown to us before they clicked on that 'Add to Cart' button."
Jerry Monkman
Nature Photographer
"PhotoShelter accommodates all the needs of the photographer and the client. We love it for its excellent search engine optimization, client delivery and portfolio functions."
James & Megan Horan
Wedding Photographers
"There's nothing better than being in a remote place and selling an image. It feels as though I have an assistant selling my work for me."
Jody MacDonald
Adventure Photographer
"Clients love the ability to download comps and to create lightboxes and PhotoShelter now provides all the tools that I need at the business end of my workflow."
Gavin Gough
Adventure Photographer
Contact us anytime for interviews/ point of view on:
- Photography portfolio websites
- Marketing & promoting a photography business
- Selling photography & photo services
- Delivering photography to clients online
- Search engine optimization
- Social media marketing
- Small business/ entrepreneurship
PhotoShelter team members frequently speak at industry events on the above topics. Our audiences have included the National Press Photographers Association, the American Society of Media Photographers, the American Photographic Artists, the Picture Archive Council of America, Editorial Photographers, the American Society of Picture Professionals, B&H Photo, Adorama Camera, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, the PhotoPlus Expo, the Telluride Photo Festival, the Palm Springs Photo Festival, the British Journal of Photography Vision 10, the News Photographers Association of Canada, the University Photographers Association of America, and various photo schools.
about PhotoShelter
"We've sold more prints online this year than in any other previous year, and most of those print buyers were unknown to us before they clicked on that 'Add to Cart' button."
Jerry Monkman
Nature Photographer
"PhotoShelter accommodates all the needs of the photographer and the client. We love it for its excellent search engine optimization, client delivery and portfolio functions."
James & Megan Horan
Wedding Photographers
"There's nothing better than being in a remote place and selling an image. It feels as though I have an assistant selling my work for me."
Jody MacDonald
Adventure Photographer
"Clients love the ability to download comps and to create lightboxes and PhotoShelter now provides all the tools that I need at the business end of my workflow."
Gavin Gough
Adventure Photographer
View PhotoShelter Photographer Profiles
Notable Clients
Sports photographer Brad Mangin
manginphotography.net
National Geographic contributors Randy Olson & Melissa Farlow
olsonfarlow.com
Humanitarian photographer Ami Vitale
amivitale.com
Celebrity portrait photographer Brian Smith
archive.briansmith.com
Magnum documentary photographer Steve McCurry
stevemccurry.photoshelter.com
Wedding Photographer Missy McLamb
missymclamb.com
artwolfe.photoshelter.com
University of Michigan Photo Store
michiganphotostore.com
Facing Change Documenting America
facingchange.photoshelter.com
Luceo Images
luceoimages.com
CQ Roll Call
cqrollcall.photoshelter.com
Colonial Williamsburg
colonialwilliamsburg.photoshelter.com
Official PhotoShelter Boilerplate
PhotoShelter is the leader in portfolio websites, photo sales, marketing and archiving tools for photographers. Over 70,000 photographers worldwide use PhotoShelter to power their success online, with customizable website templates, searchable photo galleries, e-commerce capabilities, and bulletproof image storage. Photographers can create a professional PhotoShelter website in under five minutes, or customize the design of PhotoShelter to power their existing photography website.
A complete solution designed to make the business of photography easier to manage - PhotoShelter offers image security, online image delivery, and advanced marketing tools like SEO and social media sharing capabilities so photographers can make their images work harder for them. To join our community or try PhotoShelter free for 14 days, visit www.photoshelter.com.