A filterable masonry gallery, a keyboard-accessible lightbox and a client proofing page — nothing competing with the photographs.
Photography portfolio templates tend to arrive full of someone else’s photographs and a design that competes with them. Lumen ships with zero image files on purpose: the layout, the masonry gallery and the lightbox are all built to disappear behind your work, and the demo you see is the design at its barest.
It also includes the page working photographers actually need: client proofing. Share a gallery from a shoot, let the client review and select, and keep that workflow on your own domain instead of a third-party service with a monthly fee.
Like all six of our templates, Lumen is MIT licensed and builds to a static export — free hosting on Cloudflare Pages or Netlify, with the bandwidth spent on full-resolution work rather than JavaScript.
Work displays in a true masonry flow, filterable by category, so a mixed portfolio reads as curated collections.
The lightbox works with arrow keys and Escape, not just clicks — accessibility most gallery templates skip.
A page for the working part of photography: sharing a shoot with a client for selection, not just showing a portfolio.
The template ships zero image files — no stock photos to strip out. Drop your photographs in and the design is built to carry them.
Static export plus a design with no decoration means the bandwidth budget is spent on your photographs.
Name, categories and contact details in config/site.ts — set up in minutes.
Four commands from clone to a production build. The build outputs static files — host them anywhere, free.
git clone https://github.com/haider484991/lumen-nextjs-photography-template.git
cd lumen-nextjs-photography-template
npm install
npm run dev # develop at localhost:3000
npm run build # static site in out/ — deploy to any static hostBecause every one would be a placeholder you have to remove. Lumen’s demo shows the structure honestly; your photographs complete it. That also keeps the repository small and the setup fast.
It is a gallery page structured for review — a client opens a link, browses the shoot and notes selections. It runs as part of your static site, so there is no per-gallery fee like hosted proofing services charge.
Yes — MIT licensed. Use it for your business, add a print-shop link, or build client sites on it if you design for other photographers.
Yes. Typography, layout variants, a booking flow — we adapt Lumen or design a fully custom portfolio. Send us your work and what you need.
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