Portfolio Website Built From Your Client Galleries — Automatically

Every time you deliver a client gallery, your best work from that shoot exists in one place — the gallery. But your portfolio, sitting on a separate Squarespace or Format site, doesn't know about it. So you either log in and update it manually, or you don't, and your portfolio slowly falls behind your actual work. Lumeny solves this by building your portfolio automatically from the galleries you deliver.

How the Auto-Portfolio Works in Lumeny

When you publish a gallery in Lumeny, you can toggle it to appear in your public portfolio. That's it. The photos in your gallery — organized in the same sections — become portfolio content. Your portfolio is always a reflection of your most recently delivered work.

No image export. No logging into a second platform. No drag-and-drop template editing. The delivery workflow and the portfolio update happen in the same action.

Your portfolio is publicly accessible at your Lumeny URL (or your custom domain on the Pro plan at €19/month). It presents your work in a clean, minimal layout that puts photography first. Potential clients browsing your portfolio see the same quality of presentation they'll receive when you deliver their gallery.

The Problem with Manual Portfolio Management

I ran a Squarespace site alongside my gallery delivery platform for years. The theory was: deliver the gallery, then grab the best shots and upload them to the portfolio. The practice was: deliver the gallery, move on to the next shoot, and update the portfolio once every six months when I felt guilty about it.

The result was a portfolio that was perpetually 3–6 months behind my actual best work. Meanwhile, the photos clients were most likely to recommend me based on were sitting in galleries that no one outside that client could see.

The gap between "I deliver great work" and "people can see my great work" is a portfolio update task. Eliminating that task means your portfolio is always current.

Portfolio Management: Lumeny vs Squarespace vs Format

Feature	Lumeny	Squarespace	Format
Auto-updates from delivered galleries	Yes	No	No
Manual portfolio management needed	No	Yes	Yes
Client gallery delivery	Yes	No	Limited
Shoot briefings	Yes	No	No
Booking overview	Yes	No	No
Custom domain	Yes (Pro)	Yes	Yes
GDPR compliant	Yes	No	No
Price	From €9/mo	From ~$16/mo	From ~$7/mo

The core insight: if your portfolio is built separately from your delivery workflow, it will always lag behind. If they're the same platform, the lag disappears.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do all galleries automatically appear in my portfolio? No. You control which galleries appear in your portfolio. When publishing a gallery, you choose whether it's client-only (private) or public (portfolio-visible). This means you can deliver client work without it appearing publicly.

Can clients see each other's galleries through the portfolio? Only galleries you explicitly mark as public appear in your portfolio. Client galleries with PINs and private settings remain private.

Can I customize the portfolio layout? Lumeny's portfolio uses a consistent, clean design. It's not a drag-and-drop template editor — the focus is on keeping your work looking good without configuration overhead.

Does my portfolio appear on my custom domain? Yes, on the Pro plan (€19/month), your portfolio and all galleries are served from your own domain.

Written by Christian Bauer, founder of Lumeny and photographer with 10+ years of experience.