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 It is in six places, and two of them are out of date.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
Fifteen ways in — and a dial for everything after.
A preset is a door, not a room. It sets the ground, the framing, the type and the motion at once and names the combination — and then every one of those stays yours to turn. Motion is a setting here, not a fixed house style: how long a plate takes to settle, how far a thumbnail travels, whether the work bleeds to the edge or sits matted on a wall.
- still throws a thumbnail 24 pixels. generous throws it 96.
- generous takes 1250ms to settle. still takes 900.
- Matted framings give the ground back as a wall — a surface no upload can take away.
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 price. No tiers to read.
Priced against the afternoon, not against web hosting.
free
$0
One gallery, a handful of works, a loupe address. Enough to put a real body of work on the internet and see how it looks.
loupe
$12 / month
Or $120 a year — two months free. Everything: the work records, the CV, the packets, every theme, and the export.
your own domain
add-on
Show the work at your name rather than ours. Priced separately because it costs us something real.
and what we will not do
The things a platform usually sells you
The things a platform usually sells you
that we think are a trick.
No watermarks
They sell reassurance, not protection — a screenshot defeats one in a second. And a watermark puts a mark on the work, which is the opposite of everything else here.
No right-click blocking
Defeated by turning off JavaScript. The honest answer to "I don't want this seen yet" is a link only one person has.
No print sales, no commission
We are not standing between you and anyone who wants to buy your work. There is a contact route on every gallery and it goes straight to you.
No lock-in
Your originals, your metadata, your galleries — downloadable, in formats other software reads, without asking us.