For photographers
A photography site that gets out of the way
Describe the work you take and the work you want, add your photos, and Spanli builds the site around them. Adding a shoot later is a form, not a project. The look is yours — every choice previews live.
You type “A portrait and editorial photographer in Antwerp — shoots, prints and commissions” — and Spanli assembles the site in front of you: opening, recent shoots, selected frames, commissions. The changes receipt reads: Added: 4 sections — opening, recent shoots, selected frames, commissions.
Sound familiar?
Instagram crushes your files into mush and shows them for six hours.
The portfolio platform charges you monthly to look like every other photographer on the platform. Your actual site still opens with the 2019 wedding work you stopped taking, because changing a gallery means opening a thing you'd rather not open. And the enquiry that mattered last month arrived as a DM you saw four days later.
How it works
What Spanli does about it
In the demo beside each claim: the site Spanli built; then the half-day portrait session line being corrected — you click it, type “half days are 690”, and €780 becomes €690; then new enquiry arriving in the Spanli inbox.
Adding a shoot is filling in a form
Title, the images, a few lines about it, publish. That's the whole ritual — in your dashboard, no chat, no rebuild, no remembering how the site works.
The look is a panel, not a template
Look, colour, fonts, corners, spacing, how things move — each one a dropdown, each one changing the preview as you pick it. Taste without tooling.
Enquiries in one list
Name, what they want, the date they're asking about — waiting in your dashboard instead of buried in a DM thread between spam and someone's story reply.
Everything on it
What your site includes
"Make me something like this site."
Paste the address of a site whose feel you love and Spanli borrows the mood — never the words, never the pictures. Your work, that atmosphere.
Nothing to maintain
The published site is a fixed thing served worldwide with no moving parts to break, and it's checked at phone size before it's called finished — which is where most of your enquiries are reading it.
It arrives with all of that switched on
You delete what you don't want rather than building up from nothing.
- A full-width opening image
- Your work, shoot by shoot, in a grid you add to
- A gallery for the frames that don't need a story
- What clients say
- About you: your bio, what you shoot, where you've worked and been published
- Links to where else you post
- An enquiry form
Two ways in
Start from what you already have
Describe door
The describe door with your photos: upload them at the very first step with a note about each ("this is the studio", "this is the Kaufmann wedding") and they land where they belong.
Make me something like this site
Admire another photographer's site? "Make me something like this site" takes the feel and nothing else. Old site somewhere embarrassing? "Modernize my site" rebuilds it from the address.
Make it yours
Before the first build, you set the look.
- Quietly exceptionalElegant & refined
- The story, up frontBold & editorial
- Take a breathSoft & calm
- Built for the nightSleek & dark
- An evening to rememberGlamorous & vintage
- The season, consideredFashion magazine
In case you're wondering.
How do I add a new shoot six months from now?
Open the dashboard, fill in the form — title, photos, a few lines — and publish. It's the same three minutes every time, and you don't have to remember anything about how the site was built.
Will it look like every other AI-built portfolio?
That's what the design panel is for. Pick the overall look and every other choice re-seeds from it; then override colour, type, spacing, corners, movement one dropdown at a time with the preview updating as you go. Or paste a site whose feel you want and start from there.
Can I put client galleries behind a password?
No — and we'd rather say so than half-build it. Spanli makes the public site that wins you the booking; delivering and proofing shots stays with whatever you use for that today.
Do I have to talk to an AI every time I change something?
No. Routine things — a new shoot, new prices, a swapped image — are forms in your dashboard. Chat is there for the bigger asks: "give the homepage a darker feel", "add a page for prints".
What does it cost?
Your first site is free, for good. Paid plans add your own domain and higher-quality build options.
Ready to see your website?
Describe your business and watch it come to life. Free to start — no credit card required.