Fotessa

Websites and client galleries for photographers.

Put your work online, send each client a private gallery, and get their favourites back. Free for your first 1 GB; £8 a month after that.

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A photographer's site made with Fotessa: a page of wedding photographs in the Editorial theme

Your website

Upload your photographs, group them into collections such as Weddings or Portraits, and pick a theme. Change the colours and fonts if you want to. That's the whole setup.

Your site lives at yourname.fotessa.com, or at your own domain on any paid plan. Photos load fast and look sharp on every screen, and there are no ads, pop-ups or tracking.

  • The Minimal theme: a white page with a grid of photographsMinimal
  • The Full-bleed theme: one photograph across the whole screenFull-bleed
  • The Editorial theme: a dark page with a large serif titleEditorial
A client gallery on a phone: four photos marked as favourites, and '4 of 30 selected'

Client galleries

After a shoot, upload the photos to a gallery and send your client the link. It's private: you can add a password and an expiry date, and search engines never see it.

Your client taps a heart on the photos they like. If you've agreed on 30 for the album, the gallery stops them at 30. When they're done they press Submit, and you get an email. If two people are choosing, each gets their own list.

They can download the photos too, one at a time or all at once, at web size or full resolution.

Their picks, ready for editing

You see each person's favourites, and the file names as a list. Paste it into the Lightroom or Capture One filter and you're looking at exactly the photos they chose.

The photographer's view of a client's four favourites, with their file names listed for Lightroom

Also included

  • Watermarks on gallery previews, if you want them. Downloads are always clean.
  • A contact page that sends enquiries straight to your email.
  • Comments on gallery photos, for "can this one be black and white?"
  • Any camera format: JPEG, HEIC from iPhones, TIFF and PNG, up to 100 MB a photo.
  • Your data: download everything, originals included, whenever you like.
  • No tracking of you or your visitors, and no cookie banners.

Prices

Every plan has the full portfolio site, all three themes, and as many client galleries as you like. The difference is how much you can store, and a few extras.

PlanFreeStarterProStudio
PriceFree£8 / month
or £80 a year		£18 / month
or £180 a year		£40 / month
or £400 a year
Storage1 GB
about 80 photos		25 GB
about 2,000 photos		250 GB
about 20,000 photos		1 TB
about 80,000 photos
Your own domainNoYesYesYes
Full-resolution downloadsWeb size onlyWeb size onlyYesYes
"Made with Fotessa" in your footerYesNoNoNo
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Yearly plans cost ten months. Cancel whenever you like: nothing is deleted, you just can't upload more until you're back under the free plan's space.

Start with the free plan.

No card needed. Your site is live in a couple of minutes.

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