Your photographs live on a phone. We turn them into something you can hold — a book you come back to and keep for years, rather than one more thing to scroll past. It is for people who have the pictures and not the evenings: you send them, and somebody who does this every day makes something beautiful out of them. Nothing is charged until you have paged through your own album and said yes.
Everything between the first and the last stage is our problem, not yours.
Stage One
Leave an email and a private upload link arrives within minutes. Drag in the whole folder — the professional gallery, the phone pictures, the ones other people took. Or forward the link to your photographer and let them upload directly, which is usually easier. What the gallery includes.
Stage Two
A curator reads every frame and builds the shortlist; a designer turns that shortlist into spreads. Within three to five working days you get a private link and page through the book exactly as it would be printed. How curation works.
Stage Three
Only when you are happy. The order goes to the bindery: printed on Fuji photographic paper, hand-bound in the cover you chose, boxed, and shipped worldwide within ten working days. Copies for parents and grandparents are a cheaper addition and bind in the same run.
Between the design landing and you approving it, there is usually a week of back-and-forth, and this is the part that makes the album yours. You comment directly on any spread — swap this photo, make that one full-bleed, more of the speeches, my uncle is not in this book at all. Changes normally come back within forty-eight hours.
There is no revision limit and no revision fee, and we mean that literally rather than as a marketing phrase: the album is not finished until you say it is, and nothing is printed before that moment.
While the design is being made you decide what it should be bound as — which line, which size, which of the 53 cover materials, whether the names go on in blind deboss or foil, whether there is a cameo window. If that sounds like a lot of decisions, tell us the mood and we will suggest three. Most people take one of the three.
| When | What happens | Your effort |
|---|---|---|
| Minutes | Gallery link arrives | Leave an email |
| Day 1 | You (or your photographer) upload | Drag a folder |
| Days 3–5 | Designed album arrives as a private link | None |
| Days 5–12 | Revisions, usually two or three rounds | Comment on spreads |
| On approval | Quote confirmed, payment taken | Say yes |
| +10 working days | Printed, hand-bound, boxed, shipped | Wait, impatiently |
Rush production is available when a date is immovable — an anniversary, a christening, a birthday. Ask when you upload and we will tell you honestly whether it is achievable.
Then nothing happens, which is the entire point of doing it in this order. There is no deposit to reclaim and no card to cancel. Tell us and your files are deleted; the gallery is yours to keep either way. We would rather spend a curator's afternoon than push anybody into a book they will resent on the shelf for the next fifty years.
A private online gallery for your photographs, and a designed album to page through. Leave your email and we will send you a single upload link — your design follows in three to five working days.
