Nowadays pretty much every photographer in every country of the world has an online portfolio. The way your art is showcased on your website creates the overall impression of you as an artist. That’s why it is important to have a nice-looking and user-friendly website.

The number of photography websites is growing each day. A lot of photographers prefer to have flash photo websites today. Such flash photo sites can be built from scratch, can use flash CMS, or have a flash photo gallery embedded to the html site. Flash is gaining popularity both, with web designers and with the public. The reason is that flash portfolios are effective.  Using flash, you can create a fascinating visual experience and incredible interaction. It’s an excellent way to present your art making it more impressive! Besides, professionally built flash photo website can be both, search engine and user-friendly, have low bandwidth and load fast. But what’s most important – flash websites look and feel stunning!  The dynamic experience and the beautiful presentation flash photo websites have to offer is a great solution for photographers, painters and other artists.

We’d like to introduce you an international collection of flash photo websites that belong to 40 photographers from different parts of the world! We hope you’ll be able to draw inspiration from both, the art and the websites!

Herring & Herring

Website: www.herringandherring.com
Herring & Herring is a collaboration between Dimitri Scheblanov (Russia/USA) and Jasper Carlsen (Denmark/USA), engaging in fashion photography. The website design is minimalistic - there’s minimum information that lets you focus on the smooth photo slideshow of amazing works.

Ronald Stoops

Website: www.ronaldstoops.com
Dutch photographer Ronald Stoops has 20 years background in shooting for fashion and editorial industry. There’s nothing tricky in his online portfolio. It’s simple and eye-catch. The photosets are carefully organized in rows and are well contrasted with the carefully chosen website background. And that’s fashion.

Michal Mierzejewski

Website: www.werol.org
Michal Mierzejewski is a nature photographer from Warsaw, Poland. Beautiful nature pics are beautifully organized in four categories that are veiled under the gray shroud. But once you point at them - the beautiful art is revealed.

Nicolas Henri

Website: www.nicolashenri.ch
This is the official site of Swiss photographer Nicolas Henri, working out of Basel and Zürich, Switzerland, and specializing in portrait and fashion photography. His online portfolio is just as unique as his shooting style. The site navigation deserves a separate attention. The menu bars can be fully hidden allowing to enjoy the every detail of huge pictures in the slideshow.

Erik Almas

Website: www.erikalmas.com
For Erik Almas, a Norway-native and a current San Francisco resident, is all about location, location, and location. While you’re enjoying one of his shots in full size, there’s a whole lot more miniature beautiful pieces floating beneath…

Joanna Kustra

Website: www.qstra.pl
The number of absolutely talented female photographers is rapidly increasing. Joanna Kustra is a young and ambitious fashion photographer shooting on film. This feature of hers is emphasized in Joanna’s personal photo website - the portfolio is organized as a film strip.

Den Haene

Website: www.adamdenhaene.com
Educated in both photography and film-making, New-York City based artist Adam Den Haene has a style that is provocative and commercially viable. And his creatively made website demonstrates the full potential of Adam’s artistic mind.

Ying Ang

Website: www.yingangphoto.com
Ying Ang is a New York based journey photographer. Her online portfolio is just as exciting as the journeys she documents. The menu buttons are made in the shape of geometrical figures. They remind the fishes in an adventure board game, each taking to a different exotic place.

Ralph Wenig

Website: www.ralphwenig.com
Ralph Wenig grew up in Germany, studied in France and the USA, and is currently working in Paris. His photographic style is renowned by famous fashion brands and editorials. Ralph’s hi-tech website design goes well with sleek modern-like images he creates.

Konrad Jakubowski

Website: wwwkonradjakubowski.com
Konrad Jakubowski is a contemporary fashion photographer who is in love with NYC and black and white photography. His moody sets would make you stay on his site longer. Speaking of which, it should be said that it simply knocks you down with its bigger-than-life moody female image on the main page.

Tom Kan

Website: www.tomkandesign.com
Tom Kan is a French film director, graphic designer and photographer. He has an accurately structured portfolio with a lot of scrolling to do.

Hasse Nielsen

Website: www.hassenielsen.net
Hasse Nielsen is another fashion photographer on our list. His portfolio is hard to miss. Hasse’s website has a lot of motion realized in moving up and down stream of his glamorous photos.

Darren Keith

Website: www.darrenkeith.com
Photographer Darren Keith has a regular flash gallery based website. What creates the atmosphere is the image chosen for the main page. It’s highly sensual and tender model shot. And that’s how Darren’s art and online portfolio feel.

Distil Ennui

Website: www.distilennui.com
Distil Ennui is the online portfolio of London-based photographer Alexander James. Literally Distil Ennui means to extract the essence and beauty of life to appease the world’s weariness. Beautiful concept realized in beautiful art robed in beautiful design.

Nicolas Creevy

Website: www.nicholascreevy.co.uk
Nicolas Creevy is a British fashion photographer. His photo website is created in dignified style, without any gloss or pomposity, allowing the photographer’s elegant works speak for themselves.

Denis Rouvre

Website: www.rouvre.com
French photographer Denis Rouvre is the author of brave, sometimes even disturbing photos, which you would never tell by looking at his unpretentious website that doesn’t use a lot of space and where most of the navigation is hidden under black background. You’ll have to figure out what lies beneath.

Fiero Animals

Website: www.fieroanimals.com
Fiero Animals is a photo studio specialized in creation and manipulation of digital images, blending photo compositions, 3D and illustration. Their portfolio is an impressive animated mosaic that simply blows your mind.

Reka Nyari

Website: www.rekanyari.com
The first word that comes to my mind when looking at Reka Nyari’s website is SEXUAL - the color, the shadows, the interaction… A distinctive delicate design is a great cover for the sensuous art.

Jacques Olivar

Website: www.jacquesolivar.com
Jacques Olivar is photographer from Casablanca. What makes his photo gallery stand out is the huge banner that says “Online Gallery Pictures.” You might find it too literal, but I say it adds on some playfulness and liveliness to the web design that would otherwise been missed.

Dan Tobin Smith

Website: www.dantobinsmith.com
Dan Tobin Smith’s photo website is notable for its chaotic and asymmetrical elements location. Sort of artistic confusion that still creates a rather professional impression.

Munetaka Tokuyama

Website: www.munetakatokuyama
Flash photo portfolio doesn’t always have to be rich in animation. In case of Osaka native and current New York based photographer Munetaka Tokuyama clever combination of basic flash abilities, clean images and clear content makes it up for an attractive web portfolio.

Noam Griegst

Website: www.noamgriegst.com
Photographer Noam Griegst has a stylish and minimalistic web design. Using a lot of whitespace makes it look very exquisite and mysterious.

Natalia Pokrovskaya

Website: www.pokrovskaya.com
Russian photographer Natalia Pokrovskaya’s website is simply a delight for the spectator. Creative design, bold typography, fun navigation and just excellent interaction. Very enjoyable experience overall.

Nicholas Routzen

Website: www.nicholasroutzen.com
Nicholas Routzen is a photographer working in NYC, Paris and Milan. His photo website looks simple and even over-modest at first sight. Don’t trust it - click on the image and a fascinating gallery with gigantic magnificent pictures would open up to you.

Peter Lippmann

Website: www.peterlippmann.com
Peter Lippmann is a still life photographer who, though born in New York, has been living and working in Paris for the last 15 years. His photo website s silent, calm, and peaceful. Gorgeous design!

Peter Krasilnikoff

Website: www.peterkrasilnikoff.com
Dutch photographer Peter Krasilnikoff is specializing in commercial photography. His sleek atmospheric model shots are presented in stylish minimal flash environment.

Phillip Toledano

Website: www.mrtoledano.com
Photographer Phillip Toledano was born in London and currently resides in New York. He believes that a photograph should be like an unfinished sentence. In his sustained pursuit of this, Phillip has amassed a portfolio of original photography that simply dazzles, both with the art and the presentation.

Andrew Parsons

Website: www.andrewparsonsphotography.com
Andrew Parsons is a professional photographer based in London. His online portfolio is a good example of Flash-based websites. It has beautiful and smooth navigation and an incredible interaction experience. And bright photos look amazing contrasting with the black background!

Mark Krijtenberg

Website: www.krijtenberg.nl
In case of Mark Krijtenberg’s photo portfolio you feel yourself at a real gallery where the artist is introducing his art by himself. Very personal approach to user-design.

Karen Wise

Website: www.karenwise.com
Karen Wise is a NYC based photographer specializing in weddings, food & still life. In 2008 she was named one of the Top 10 Wedding Photographers in the World by American Photo. Karen Wise’s photography is unique and emotional, and her photo website created in pastel shades enhance this emotion while you’re looking the smoothly changing pictures…

Jean Yves Lemoigne

Website: www.jeanyveslemoigne.com
French photographer Jean Yves Lemoigne’s works are surreal, beautiful and thought provoking. His photo website is built in classy traditions of flash portfolios. However, watch out for the photo stream - it’s a little to fast to scroll

Alberto Oviedo

Website: www.oviedofoto.com
Alberto Oviedo website design is dominated by large photos. Nice, big, and beautiful images with subtle navigation make up the consistent style within the site.

Denis Reggie

Website: www.denisreggie.com
American photographer Denis Reggie is basically the founder of wedding photojournalism who’s been in business for about 20 years. His phenominal portfolio deserves a worthy presentation. Denis’ flash photo website has a classic design with a beautiful flash intro on the main page.

Koen Demuynck

Website: www.koendemuynck.com
Belgian photographer Koen Demuynck is an advertising photographer. His online portfolio is just as creative as his works. The website is clean, has modern-look and cool navigation that CSS-based site owners would envy.

Simon Pais Thomas

Website: www.simonpaisthomas.com
The photo website of Simon Pais Thomas is another great example of minimalistic portfolio design. Basically, it is just a single flash photo gallery. I thought it would be nice to show you the benefits of flash technology applied to portfolio.

Carlos Alonso

Website: www.carlosalonsobodas.com
Carlos Alonso’s new flash website simply blew my mind when I saw it. It’s interactive Flash at its best. Beautiful concept, interesting design, and excellent visual experience!

Evaan Kheraj

Website: www.evaankheraj.com
Evaan Kheraj is a Vancouver fashion photographer specializing in Fashion, Beauty, and Advertising Photography. His website is another example of a larger-than-life image slideshow on the background making the portfolio effective. Of course, you’ve got to have nice images to put in a slideshow like this.

Ciril Jazbec

Website: www.ciriljazbec.com
Slovenian photographer Ciril Jazbec chooses a mosaic-style flash portfolio for his works. Can’t blame him on it - looks impressive and bright!

Rinze Van Brug

Website: www.rinze.com
I think I might be repeating myself on this ’cause Rinze Van Brug’s website is just another example of a flash-based and large image dominated portfolio. They are just so gorgeous in their simplicity! However, you won’t find this portfolio by no means identical to the previous one.

Corey Arnold

Website: www.coreyfishes.com
Corey Arnold is a photographer and Alaskan crab fisherman. His photo website is a nice blend of style and usability. The design key feature is the transparent red menu that falls down when you cross the header line with the mouse. It looks cool, but can become annoying at some point.

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