loupe
The work record
Title, medium, dimensions, year, edition — the four-part label every gallery wall in the world already uses. One work can hold several photographs of itself, because a sculpture has more than one side.
what it is
Every portfolio host will build you a gallery.
Every portfolio host will build you a gallery.
None of them fills in the form.
An open call wants ten images at a stated long edge, a numbered image list with title, medium, dimensions and year, a statement under five hundred words, and a CV. You have all of it. It is in six places, and two of them are out of date.
loupe keeps the work and the paperwork in the same place, so the second one stops being a separate job.
A CV that stays current
Say where a body of work was shown — venue, city, dates, solo or group — and the CV is a view over what you have already made. No form to fill in twice, and nothing to go stale.
The submission packet
Images at the size they asked for, a numbered image list, the statement at the length they wanted, the CV. One file, named their way. The afternoon back.
- title
- Untitled (Blue Interval)
- medium
- oil on linen
- dimensions
- 120 × 90 cm
- year
- 2025
presentation
Choose how it hangs. Change your mind later.
A gallery is a choice about your own work, not about software: how much shows at once, whether the order carries meaning, and whether you place things yourself. Answer that once and the rest is paint — the wall it hangs on, whether the work bleeds to the edge or sits matted, the lettering. None of it is a one-way door.
- Matted framings give the ground back as a wall — a surface no upload can take away.
- Nothing is baked in. Turn any of it afterwards and the gallery changes with it — the work never moves.
what you keep
Type it once. It leaves with the file.
Everything you record about a work is written into the photograph itself as standard IPTC and XMP — not into our database and nowhere else. Download your files and open them in Lightroom, Bridge or anything you use next: your titles, your media, your descriptions are already there.
- We never re-encode a photograph. The metadata is replaced in place and every other byte is copied through untouched.
- Your own keywords and ratings survive — we merge into what your tools wrote, never over it.
- The export is not a paid feature and never will be. Work that cannot leave is work you have lent us.
what it costs
One plan. No tiers to read.
A site and a record, in one place, for less than either. Every template, every page and the copy of everything you keep are on every plan — the price buys room, your own name, and the deliverables.
free
$0
One gallery on your site, fifty photographs, a loupe address, every template and every page. Enough to put one real body of work on the internet and see how it looks. The loupe mark stays, quietly.
loupe
$120 / year
Or $14 a month. Every gallery on your site, five thousand photographs, your own domain, a press kit, and a way back to your catalogue as it was on any day of the last month.
more room
$50 / year
Ten thousand more photographs at a time, for the artist whose whole archive lives here. Add a room when the meter says so, never before. Helpers — an assistant, a gallery, an archivist — are free.
Looking after several artists? A gallery, an agent or an estate keeps each artist’s site and record under one account, on one bill, at the plan price per artist — less from the third artist on. Someone who helps an artist with their own catalogue — an assistant, an archivist — costs nothing.
Your work leaves with its record attached, on any plan, any day. Nothing is deleted when your plan changes; a catalogue on Free that holds more than Free’s room keeps everything for a year, and we write to you before anything goes.