One of the first things you need to do when starting your business is to set up a photography website that shows off your work and gives your prospective clients the information they need to hire you. Your website is your virtual storefront. Not only is it a great way to get more clients, but it’s a really great photography marketing tool that you can control completely and find clients outside of the people you already know.

In this article, I am going to share 39 free and premium modern portfolio photography HTML website templates worth giving a try.

FotoHunter

modern photography website template

FotoHunter is a Creative Photographer HTML Template.The template can be used for Photographer Portfolio, Creative Designer Portfolio and more. Template is designed to comply with these requirements and all the latest trends of web design.

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Raw

Raw

It offers several homepage layout options, full and fixed width portfolio grids, awesome hover effects, full width sliders with HTML5 background video & touch support, fashionable captions, contact form with honeypot spam prevention and tons of professional styling options.

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FlowAway Fullscreen Video/Image with Audio

flowaway

You’ll see that we know how to do it right and smooth. You’ll be endured by this theme. The latest enhancements of HTML 5, Ajax and CSS3 are combined in this template to provide flexbility and usability for you.

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FULLSCREEN – Photography Portfolio HTML5 with Shop

FULLSCREEN

This template is a responsive and retina-ready HTML5 website with grid system layout. Mobile Touch optimized.

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Prologue

Prologue

Prologue is a free unique and creative site template perfect for a creative agency, graphic designer, photographer, artist or anything in between.

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MY FOLIO

MY FOLIO

This template is a responsive and retina ready HTML5 one-page template with grid system layout.

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Live Grid

Live Grid

Live Grid – Responsive Interactive HTML Portfolio was specially created according the latest web technologies. It includes a unique menu, animated image grid, full screen photo portfolios, photo and video masonry grid portfolios, client proofing page, image adaptivity for each screen size, ajax HTML page preloader, share social icons for photo and video items and much more. It can be great for photographers.

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liquid gem

liquid gem

Liquid Gem utilises CSS media queries and percentage layouts to give a completely responsive design.

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Caja

Caja

HTML 5 template perfect for creative’s portfolio offering files for download and showcase work.

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brushed

brushed

Brushed is Free One Page Responsive HTML Template based on Twitter Bootstrap Framework. It is optimized for Retina Displays ( iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and MacBook Pro Retina). Best for studio, digital agency or creative people. Brushed is provides a powerful way to showcase your work. It is built with the HTML5 and CSS3 latest technologies, but at the same time make it compatible with older browser versions.

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Simple Tape

Simple Tape

Simple Tape – a simple HTML template in a minimalist style, which you can get for free. Template is perfect for creating your own portfolio, and corporate website.

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CreativePearl

CreativePearl

CreativePearl is a powerful responsive WordPress Theme, best suited for photographers and creatives who use portfolios to effectively present their work. CreativePearl theme is powered by the advanced ThemeOptions panel, which provides tons of options to manage and modify any aspect of the theme.

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ColdFusion

ColdFusion

A great design by combining power of HTML5 and CSS3 with latest upgrades which gives you a superior control ability on multimedia such background control with images, videos and music. If you want to provide a comfortable experience to visitors with not reloading , fast and responsive theme, Cold Fusion is right choice!

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RIB

RIB

RIB is responsive creative photography theme with clean and minimalist design. 12 different color schemes to choose on both light/dark skin.

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Serendipity

Serendipity

Serendipity – Fullscreen, Responsive, Creative, Photography, Portfolio and Personal template. It has so smooth effect.

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Pintores

Pintores

Ready to share your online findings with your visitors? With Pintores, our Pinterest-like theme Site Template you can do it à la Pinterest!

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ZHOT

ZHOT

Zhot is perfect for Photography, Graphic Design & Webdevelopment company’s.

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Murky09

Murky09

Murky09 – Photography Theme, This template is for showing your work to the world. Powered with Bootstrap framework, designed with HTML5 and CSS3 technology.

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Modelish

Modelish

Modelish is a unique modern HTML5+LESS site template for presenting artwork or photography, but can be customized for any business. Highly optimized with mobile first techniques and retina display support, this template will bring style and a modern feal your audience has never seen before.

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Photoes

Photoes

It’s really incredible how fast the pages built with Photoes load. As you know, speed is very important when building a site so we’ve spent a huge amount of time optimizing this theme for photos to load extremely fast.

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Practical

Practical

If you’re looking for fresh HTML template you’re in the right place. Practical is based on the custom 1440px responsive grid which is fully prepared for smaller devices like tablets or smartphones. You can choose from light and dark style and from 15 prepared color schemes.

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Pix

Pix

Pix Love is an html template specially designed for Portfolio websites. This template is easy to modify and ready to be up and running out of the box. The home page PSD file included have been customized to allow fast skinning.

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BIG

BIG

BIG Gallery – Fullscreen Photography Portfolio is an unique way to present your photos.It allows you to present your work as big as possible.

Download BIG →

Pinfinity

Pinfinity

Responsive Tumblr-Like Site Template.

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Style

Style

Style Premium xHTML One Page Template uses a great deal of white/dark space to create a clean feel to this site. The elements of this web design are nicely spaced out to create a clean overall design. The light/dark background and elegant typography combines to make a very fresh design.

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PhotoArtist

PhotoArtist

We have lots of friends that do photography for a living or simply just for fun, and all of them asked us to come up with a really minimalistic HTML theme, that could showcase their work in a way that doesn’t detract from the actual imagery. With PhotoArtist HTML version, we have tried to combine the “full-screen” only look with features that give the viewer more control over the presentation of the photos.

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Right

Right

Experience the New and Impressive touch to HTML5 and CSS3 Right Now ! Draw the Screen to Navigate. Leave behind the “Modal Boxes” and ski among your images and video files, enjoy with your audio player…

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Silence

Silence

Silence is amazing unique theme created to be easy to modify and customize. It’s based on 960 grid system. Silence can be used by photographers, companies, private blogs and more. You can easily customize this theme with css and psd files that gives You unlimited possibilities of modification.

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Space

Space

Space is a creative one-page template that includes everything for portfolio and business use.

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Pearl

Pearl

Pearl is a stylish full screen background template with a custom full screen gallery, perfect for showing off your visual work or perhaps you would just like to use images to sell yourself,
what ever you do!

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Momento

Momento

Show off your work with this easy-to-customize and fully featured Site Template. When purchasing this template, you will receive a detailed help file along with additional options like choosing between unlimited color schemes and 2 unique featured sliders.

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Panoramic

Panoramic

Panoramic is a powerful template which scrolls in any direction : horizontally, vertically or in both directions. It has been tested with all the main browsers as well as older versions to make sure that it’s fully compatible and degrades gracefully even if javascript is disabled.Based on the 960 Grid System, each section will be automatically resized to fill the whole browser.

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Storm

Storm

Storm is a stunning full screen background template with a custom full screen gallery,
perfect for showing off your visual work or perhaps you would just like to use images to sell yourself,
what ever you do! Background switcher controls allow you to cycle through background images, which are preloaded to cut loading time.

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Famous

Famous

“Famous Photography” is an elegant html/css template created especialy for photographers, digital artists, designers, also perfect for any company or freelancer that want to expose a nice portofolio gallery.The template is build with a simple look, a thumb gallery slideshow on main page, that is the main focus of this theme, where you can featured your best photos, desings, illustrations etc.

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Fotography

Fotography

This theme is best suitable for a Photography and Personal folio website as well. Template works in all the major browsers, and has massive features to use for your next projects. For most of the part you can just follow the HTML with commented codes. It’s having all the generic layout options and for photography website.

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Mindset

Mindset

Mindset is a HTML Template, best suited for Portfolio and Magazine sites. It comes with 5 color variations and 14 Different page templates.

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Sooji

Sooji

Sooji HTML template has been created for photographers or any organization that focuses on images in their portfolio.

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Eekon

Eekon

Eekon Photoblog – HTML is a dark-backgrounded, simple and clean blog theme, that focuses on presenting photos. It will work great as personal photoblog, news/rumors site, or even photography/art portfolio.

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Galleria

Galleria

Show off your work with this easy to customize and fully featured HTML template. When purchasing this template, you get a detailed help file with additional options like choosing between 2 different javascript galleries and 12 color schemes.

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