PHOTOGRAPHERS & ARTISTS / LIVE WEBSITE
Solomon Crowe Photography
A portfolio that gives people a way to commission, collect and license the work.
Give every visitor a clear next step.
Someone looking for a family portrait arrives with a different question from a collector choosing a print. We built separate paths so both can see the work and take the next step without searching through the entire portfolio.
Commission pages guide clients towards a project enquiry. Print buyers can compare paper and canvas, choose a size and see how the photograph could look in a room.
Explore the live photography siteWHAT WE BUILT
A working website for a creative practice.
- Dedicated enquiry pages for fashion and modelling, family and portrait sessions, and commercial photography.
- A fine art print selection with prices, finishes, room previews and an order request.
- Searchable galleries, image zoom and a lightbox for saving favourites.
- A stock catalogue with links to the matching PhotoShelter image for licensing and download.
DESIGN DECISION
Separate the portfolio from the buying decisions.
A model can go straight to Toronto model portfolio sessions, a family can explore the Signature Portrait Day, and a brand can review commercial photography rates. A collector can stay with one photograph while deciding on size and finish. An image buyer can search by subject or location and open the matching stock listing to buy a licence.
The image viewer, captions and search give the work context. The portfolio can grow as new collections are ready.
Connect a new storefront to an established stock library
Solomon Crowe Photography already had an established PhotoShelter archive with original photographs, licensing and digital delivery. The new website needed to present the photography under its own brand while keeping that archive useful to the people who buy stock. Formvant designed the two sites to work together, with the new site handling discovery and the stock library handling the digital purchase.
The connection works at the image level. Where a photograph has a matching stock record, the catalogue uses its source image ID to link the Digital purchase button to that photograph. A buyer can discover it by browsing the new storefront and go straight to the matching listing to select usage, buy a licence and download the file. The full-library link also gives buyers a way to browse beyond the selection on the new site.
That division of work keeps digital pricing and licensing in the established library. Fine art print buyers follow a separate route on the new site, where they can compare sizes and finishes and request a print. Commission clients can go to the relevant service page and enquire about their own shoot.
For a photographer with an existing archive, this design gives the public site room to grow without making an archive migration a prerequisite. The connection is through matched listings. Gallery and metadata updates are managed separately.
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Help buyers act while the photograph has their attention.
Keep the archive your stock business already relies on and give it a storefront that looks like your work. Formvant can connect your existing licensing system to the right images and build separate paths for print collectors and clients ready to commission a shoot.