Imagine a photographic gallery that displays your work exclusively. You get to personally design and hang the shows. You write the didactic material, and you have complete control over what people see and how they see it. The gallery is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and has a constant stream of visitors from all over the world.
Many people now put up their family, travel and even fine-art photographs on home pages.
Nothing more than a recent version of Microsoft Explorer or Netscape Navigator is needed. However, if you have a large body of work to display, if you intend to have more than just family and friends visit the site, or you plan to sell prints on-line as part of your professional or artistic practice, then you need something more. This article will introduce you to the technical, aesthetic, and financial considerations of opening a web-based gallery for your photography. In 1997, I was asked by a local gallery in Toronto to mount a show of my landscape photography. I was excited by the prospect.