Whether you are a beginner or a professional photographer, having a photography portfolio is a must these days. In this post, we are going to introduce 50 beautiful photography portfolio sites for your inspiration.
What is a Photography Portfolio?
Photography portfolio is an online website or gallery showing your best photography work, along with your bio and contact information. You can be the best photographer in your niche, but without a photography portfolio, you might have a hard time acquiring clients.
For most people and potential clients out there, your portfolio is real proof of your skills and experience. People believe what they see. Beautiful photography framed into a clean, modern website can do wonders to your photography business.
Beautiful Photography Portfolio Websites for Your Inspiration
In this list, we have handpicked 50 best, creative, and beautiful photography portfolio websites from all over the web. We collected these sites to help you find ideas and inspiration for your own portfolio.
Jill Greenberg
Jill Greenberg is known for her series of crying children called ‘End Times’ in 2005. It caused a stir in photography and culture. She started her photography path at the age of 10 and earned numerous awards since that time.
Michael Muller
Michael Muller is an American celebrity photographer who is responsible for favorite and world-recognized shots.
Nick Onken
Nick Onken is a famous photographer and entrepreneur who has taken pictures of Justin Bieber, Tom Hanks, and Jessica Alba. He has photographed international campaigns for such huge brands as Coca Cola, Nike, and Adidas.
Tony D’orio
“Tony never wanted to be a photographer” as his bio says. But, he is a photographer from Chicago who specializes in portraits and has numerous awards.
Tom Hull
Tom Hull is a UK-based portrait, advertising, and landscape photographer. He worked with many famous brands, such as Nike, Phillip Morris, and other.
Helen Hooker
Helen Hooker is a talented photographer from the UK. Her photography blog is interesting to read and see. There you will find street photography, architecture, and wildlife. She has been posting a photo per day for over a decade now!
Sebastian Kim
Sebastian Kim is a celebrity and portrait photographer whose photos you might see on covers of Elle and Vanity Fair. His website is a gallery of bright and creative shots.
Mareen Fischinger
Andrew Hobbs
Andrew Hobbs is a portrait photographer who worked with Nike, Nokia, Chanel, and Louis Vuitton. His website has a minimalist, clean design with white background and images with the landscape, and vertical orientation put side by side.
Michael David Adams
Michael’s website is one of my favorite in this collection. It features a grid-based design with monochrome photos which got colorful when you roll your mouse over. Michael David Adams is an editorial photographer from New York.
Angil
As Angil’s profile says, he is Pursuing pixel perfection. He is one of Photoblog Pro users with a creative portfolio and beautiful outdoor images.
Paolo Boccardi
Paolo is a photographer and creative director from Milan. His website features full-width photos, use arrows on the right to navigate the portfolio.
Aaron Feaver
Aaron is a fashion portrait photographer from France, who is living in Los Angeles. He has horizontal scrolling website with amazing colorful portraits and big typography.
Levon Biss
Levon Biss has a unique portfolio with macro photos of insects. He is a photographer from London who had shooting numerous genres, including portraiture, documentary, and sport. Lately, Levon’s passion for photo and nature turned out into Microsculpture, a series of insects photography.
Joshua Stearns
Joshua Stearns is a fashion and street photographer from Hawai, US. The thing of his portfolio is a large typography logo on the white background on top.
Stephanie Hyde
With over 1.6K and 2k comments, her profile is one of the most popular on Photoblog. Stephanie’s portfolio includes photos of children, nature, travel, and food.
Zena Holloway
Zena is a unique underwater photographer who perfectly combines technical skills and creative vision. Her portfolio is a simple landing page with big images and parallax scrolling.
Brett Arthur
Brett is a portrait photographer from Raleigh, NC. His site has creative horizontal scrolling and a big red logo on the left hand.
Ho Kim
Ho Kim is another creative photographer from Photoblog. Check out his beautiful images connected to tourism and nature.
Nicola Walbeck
Nicola is a fashion, portrait, and architecture photographer with a beautiful portfolio. It featured a grid-based design with stunning animation. Try to click on the image to see how it opens full-size.
Lisa Bettany
Lisa is a Canadian photographer and tech entrepreneur. She has created an iPhone app Camera+ which was downloaded over 14 millions times. Her photos were featured in numerous magazines including The New York Times, Elle, and Toronto Star.
Daniel Weisser
Daniel is a freelance photographer and film-maker with over 12 years of experience. His portfolio has a dark background with a grid gallery.
Juco Photography
Juco is a collaboration of two creative photographers Julia Galdo and Cody Cloud. Their portfolio has a colorful gallery of images on a white backdrop. Among their clients are Apple, Nike, and Coca Cola.
James Day
James Day is a London-based photographer who works mostly with advertising and editorial. His works were featured on The New York Times, The New Yorker Magazine, US and UK Wired, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Wallpaper.
Roger Hoit
This is a portfolio os Roger Hoit who own a studio of video and photo production. The main page features a full-screen video.
Steffen Knudsen Allen
Steffen got into photography at an early age. Go to his website and slide down to see his works. The smaller preview of the images is on the right side.
Stan Seaton
Stan Seaton is a team of Stan and Jane who worked together for over 16 years. Their portfolio features breathtaking wedding photography with parallax scrolling.
Piotr Kulczycki
Piotr Kulczycki is a travel photographer. He is sharing his pictures from different corners of the globe on his website.
Kevin Hofer
Kevin’s photography style can be described as wild, active, and creative. With a simple dark background, these images stand out. Roll your mouse over the logo and a list of thumbnails will pop up.
Tom Griffiths
Tom Griffiths is a photographer from London who shoots fantastic portraits. Recently he was a photographer of project ‘Coffee + Conversation,’ as part of Tia Maria’s Coffee Project. You can find pictures from this project on his blog.
Jeremy Cowart
Jeremy is a photographer from Nashville, Tennessee. He started as a painter and during this time photo was just a canvas for his design work. But lately, Jeremy realized that photography is his real passion.
Christina Marie
Christina is a wedding photographer from San Diego. Her pictures are romantic, beautiful, and they tell a story of love.
Clayton Bozard
Clayton is an editorial and music photographer based in Columbia, South Carolina. The images move horizontally and smooth in the gallery.
Ken Kaminesky
Ken is a travel and lifestyle photographer from Canada. You might see his photos on National Geographic covers. Now, don’t hesitate to check out his website.
Eric Ryan Anderson
Eric is a lifestyle, portrait, and sports photographer who also like motion art. His portfolio features a gallery of still shots and videos, along with a wry ‘burger’ menu icon.
Lara Jade
Lara Jade is a fashion and editorial photographer who work worldwide. Currently living in New York, Lara was born in London and developed an interest in photography at an early age.
Nicolas Tarier
Nicolas is a 23-years old photographer from Paris. As you see, he chose a grid-based design for his portfolio.
Joseph N. Tran
Joseph is a fashion photographer based in New York and Los Angeles. His portfolio shows the true beauty of a woman’s body.
Estevez & Belloso
This portfolio by Estevez & Belloso includes cruciform thumbnails. When you move your cursor over one of them, it turns out an image with a headline.
Georges Antoni
Georges is a fashion photographer whose website is similar to a Tumblr blog because it features still images along with GIFs. On one page.
Corey Arnold
Corey Arnold is a photographer and fisherman from Alaska. On his portfolio, you are going to find breathtaking images of Alaska nature and fisherman’s life.
Scott Kelby
Scott is a professional photographer, and CEO of KelbyOne, a photography community. He has written over 50 books about digital photography and photo editing.
Andrew Gransden
Andrew Gransden is a professional photographer from Scotland who shoot a commercial, wildlife, and aerial photography.
David Hill
David is a photographer who started his career shooting 50 Cent, Chris Brown, Three 6 Mafia, and Soulja Boy. His portfolio is a gallery with images and small descriptions.
Gavin Gough
Gavin is a documentary, travel, and editorial photographer who lives for two cities Bangkok and Vienna. On his portfolio, you’ll see a focus on the images and real human emotions.
Jan Erik Waider
Jan Erik Waider is a fine art and landscape photographer from the North. While he was born in Hamburg, Germany, he spends most of the year in northern countries shooting amazing colorful images.
Ryan Edy
This is a portfolio website of Ryan Edy, a fashion photographer from England. He worked with well-known brands such as Subaru, Nike, Berghaus, Reebok, Columbia, and First Direct Bank. Click on each image in the gallery to see it is moving and changing.
Mario Testino
Mario is an influential and popular fashion photographer who created images for Gucci, Burberry, Versace and Michael Kors to CHANEL, Estée Lauder and Dolce & Gabbana. His website is designed as a timeline.
Morgan Norman
Morgan is a fashion photographer and director who loves to focus on lights and shadows. Take a look at his portfolio is a responsive grid gallery with infinite scroll.
Ryan Michael Kelly
Another beautiful grid-based portfolio by Rayn Michael Kelly. He is an editorial and fashion photographer who has worked with Nexxus, Nike, and Pantene.
Why Every Photographer Needs a Portfolio?
If someone asks you where can they see your photos, you can tell them your website URL and potentially gain a new client. It’s a must-have for any photographer who wants to succeed in the industry.
A portfolio is also part of your personal branding these days. Beautiful photos require a perfect-matching website to compliment. Would you frame a beautiful photo with an ugly frame? I don’t think so!
How to Choose Photos for Your Portfolio?
There is no need to put ALL of your photography on your new portfolio website. Try to be selective and choose only the best shots. People don’t have time to scroll over 1000 photos of the same subject/location; they want to see how you work in different locations, with different subjects and maybe genres.
Over to You
I hope you enjoy the collection of creative professional photography portfolios. What portfolio do you like the best and why? Shape your thoughts in the comment section below. If you have a portfolio, don’t hesitate to share a link too.
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