Visura has been instrumental in assisting me to present my work to the world in a seamless, professional and functional way. With the help of the Visura team I have managed to created a space that is uncluttered, easy to navigate, and holds true to the vision of my work and is a site that I am proud to direct patrons too. I have found that people have also come across my work through engaging with the platform and it has been an effective way for me to find colleagues who are concentrating on issues and developing stories that I am interested in.

The support in the building and modulating the site to suit my needs has been quick and responsive, and the site builder is easy to use which I value immensely, seeing as I struggle in general with such technical aspects.

I am always excited to engage with the platform, to look at the work of others and keep up with community news.

As a member of Visura, I feel embedded in a community of like-minded people, exploring the world and its many stories in their own inspiring way. Most recently, one of my stories was featured in the American Scholar thanks to the editor's access to Visura's member portfolios. Thanks for the great work and communication guys, happy to be a part of this beautiful network!

Visura is an incredible platform for any kind of storytellers, especially those who work with visuals. Clean interface, easy web-building, and an amazingly quick staff/support team there to help their members have the best experience.

The features I love most are the dashboard and news section. I love being able to keep up to date with Storytellers on Visura by just visiting the dashboard. Visura is central to my career, from here I keep editors up to date with my latest work, organize my publications, share my work on social media, and communicate easily with other storytellers.

After many years of shooting documentary photography, I finally decided to start doing what I have always dreamed of. I recently started in the world of photojournalism — a fascinating and very competitive profession, full of talent everywhere, and with many challenges.

I created my website in Visura, which is still under construction. Little by little, I´d understand how everything works. Focused on a day-to-day basis, and honestly not very aware of looking at Visura as much more than just a hosting for my website, one day I received an email from an editor looking for Street Photography images for a client. I was surprised by that email, but I searched through my files and sent some sample pics.

After several weeks I received an email saying that one of my photos had been selected. What a great surprise! I am pleased about everything because Visura allows me to be in contact with many editors and colleagues from around the world. It has also been very easy to build my website.

Visura gives me the opportunity to share my photos among other photographers with high quality standards. This distinguishes Visura from other social platforms like facebook. Here I'm able to reach people with expertise in photography and I also can see their work.

About this image - In November / December 2019 I spent two weeks in Mumbai with the intention to take street portraits. I used a wide-angle lens (28mm) so that the context of the person being portrayed is also shown (environmental portrait). The attached photo was taken in Dharavi, one of the biggest slums in Asia. Other than expected, the people there were very open-minded, friendly and just as curious about me as I was about them. I met poor but hard working people. Different religions live and work in a confined space in a harmonious neighborhood. People take care about each other.

I would like to send thanks for my Visura website it has been very helpful for me
reaching and finding photographers and curators all over the world.

And meeting them during my travels. I participated in Visura's Book Signing and Cocktail event, at the Foley Gallery, New York 2017 and it was a very important experience and a chance for a photographer that people get you to know you personally buy your signed book.

Visura is not only a web page provider. It is like a home for me. A place where I can submit pictures to editors. Also they provide me with a very good assistance in case of any problem, that usually I can't solve because I am working in the field. Thanks to Visura I can focus in my business.

Many years of family life and academia had me neglecting career and creative aspects of my photography. With the arrival of my daughter, Lur, and the “publish or perish” requirements of being a professor at an American university, I found myself inspired and motivated to make something of the skillset that had been fallow for many years. Call it serendipity or coincidence, or luck, but Visura emerged at the prefect time.

In very short order, I was able to arrange and present my work on this global platform. Essentially, Visura allowed me to reinvent myself as a photographer. The collaboration with Visura subsequently opened numerous opportunities for exhibitions, jobs, awards, and global exposure. I would strongly encourage any emerging and aspirational photographer to give Visura and the Visura community a close look.

I don’t take endorsements or promotion lightly. I wouldn’t be writing this if it weren’t heartfelt. I hope to see you on Visura!

For me, Visura is a wonderful throwback to the days where community existed between Photographers and excellence and expression in work mattered more than buzz or Sensation.

For more than ten years, the Visura team has single-handedly Published an online blog which is far and away one of the most interesting and fresh in the business.

Some thousands of photographers and editors check it out regularly. To see what younger and - thank goodness! — older photographers are working on.

My first contact with the Visura team was in 2008 when they asked me for a portfolio. I agreed but of course left it to the last minute. Faced with a deadline, I decided to just throw my favorite pictures together and call it “Runaway”.

Eight years later, working on a new book, and stuck on its structure, I looked up The portfolio and realized that that Visura portfolio had been a godsend - I clearly put photographs together better when I didn’t think too much, but had to meet a deadline.

The book, Water for Tears, came out in 2018, and The midwife was definitely Visura. For which I have the Visura team to thank.

In a profession that changes by the minute, it's helpful to have a visual community on the bleeding edge. The Visura news blog is like the photographer's equivalent to the NY Times.

The Visura team has been my compass while navigating website creation, pitching, and exploring ways to use visual content. This is a team that understands the importance of pushing the boundaries to make the photo industry stronger, more inclusive and more creative.

Thanks to the Visura portal, I made contact with some photo editors who published some of my images. For example, I collaborated with @weaponsofreason magazine and they published some of my photos in their magazine.

I switched to Visura about two years ago, and I love it. It's so easy to use, and has AMAZING support. I had been going it alone with Wordpress for years before, and never got the look I wanted in my website. With Visura, my site always looks sharp, and my photos are presented beautifully.

I really appreciate that the Visura team look out for my site as well -- whenever I've had an issue, however large or small, it doesn't take more than a day to get it solved. They are passionate about caring for and promoting the photographers on Visura -- I recommend it to anyone looking for a new website host.

Choosing the Visura platform to showcase my work, particularly with the creation and maintenance of my photographer website, was one of the focal points when, in 2017, I decided to take a different course in my photographic work.

Before, since 2002, I basically did sports photojournalism. Today my form of photography, focuses more on photojournalism, documentary, travel photography, and social issues. In this particular aspect, Visura has helped me to renew my own image, that is, the way I show my work to the world.

On the other hand, Visura allowed me to meet other photographers, other looks, from which I received crucial influences on the way I see photography at this moment of my life, at 40 years of age.

Switching to Visura was one of the best moves I have done for my career. The website is truly made with photojournalists in mind and it shows.

I love the simple design and UI which allows me to show my work to editors all over the world. Finally, I wanted to give a special shout-out to the Visura team who helped me so much in the process of switching my domain.

Needless to say that I highly recommend Visura!

Thanks to Visura, my work has become much easier to find. I am now able to reach a wide range of photo editors and gain exposure to the broader audience with my work.

I mainly use Visura to host my website and keep my portfolio up-to-date. I enjoy the minimalist user interface. Coming from a self-hosted WordPress site, I am delighted how with how little time I am spending on fixing bugs. The support has been a blessing so far and correspondence was quick and helpful.

Besides all of this, Visura helps me to enjoy other photographer's work. To explore different approaches to visual journalism. Every time I go online to update my website, I get stuck on the feed and discover great projects.

A give a big recommendation if you are fed up spending more time than necessary on your digital portfolio and are looking from somewhat of a social network, focused on great visual journalism.

I have been using the Visura platform for almost 4 years and I appreciate the whole concept of this web space. It provides me with a great opportunity to interact with other artists/photographers/communities/publishers and agents.

As an artist, the ease and wide range of elegant and simple smart templates for building my own 3 websites (all in one package, my main webpage and other 2 main projects), which I use also interactively with my social media, is amazing. Visura is a great tools and their sufficiency as well as support I get with the maintenance, is something I highly appreciate.

Visura allows me to build a community of photographers and artists with various genres and their photography « topics » that gives me great information base, nice inspiration, great package of articles and regular visual stories from all around the world. I consider this platform as great database as well to get to know enormous diversity of photography topics, magazines, books, shows, exhibitions and projects with high quality access.

As a Visura member I am regularly informed about photography calls, briefs and image requests that is great opportunity to get published and to cooperate with various media and organisations.

It is great way to build interesting network with possibility to be promoted and to be widely visible.

I'm not exaggerating when I say switching to Visura was the best website decision I've ever made. I used to use one of the really big template companies, and it was nearly impossible to get help/advice. Switching to Visura cleaned up my site with a modern look, and the transition was seamless. But I think the best thing about Visura is that it's a tight-knit community of photojournalists who all think similarly. It's been a great experience networking with other photographers, editors and Visura peers.

Joining Visura has been incredibly valuable in moving my work as a documentary photographer forward. Before moving over, my portfolio was on a WordPress self-built template and though the design was OK, I had limited exposure and limited technical or aesthetic feedback.

As an emerging photographer working on the resource margins, Visura provides a professionally designed website plus additional space for short stories, and single images thus combining a full portfolio site with a storyboard and social media type photo posting.  The weekly emailed highlights are valuable in showcasing the best in fine art photographer, photojournalism and documentary work. With Visura I genuinely feel part of a community of artists. Not only is your work being viewed by other photographers, curators, photo editors etc, but the Visura team is responsive and supportive to individual needs.  I love being part of Visura and will continue making my online home on this space.

It is hard for me to describe Visura in words, for in the end I am a visual storyteller. But it is important for me to make an effort to share with the world what this company, and its founding members, can do for photography and for the photo community.

For almost 4 years I had been working on one single project. I was investing all the extra time I had available, all the money I made, my mind, my body and my soul to raise awareness on the impact of mining in Brazil, and specially on my home State of Minas Gerais.

During this time, I offered my images for free for publications that refused it, applied to dozens of open calls that would often come with a negative result, I had a portfolio review with a curator that stood up and said "look at you, are not an activist, you have no idea what you are talking about", an import person in the photo field in Brazil told me that there wasn't important enough female photographers living out of photography in the country. Editors would tell me: your images are too abstract, they lack the digital sharpness or "you are not Burtynsky, he does this or that" and so on.

In January 2019 I decided I would back off from the cause. I was tired, I had no energy and I was basically broke. I decided I would give one last shot. I applied to an Open Call at Visura that a friend of mine forwarded to me.

A few weeks later a tailing dam from a mine that I knew was endangered broke, it killed 270 people. I was working on the field, having a lunch break with local members of the community and the social movement I am part of when I received Adriana's email. I remember I started shaking, I hugged a local legislator from the mining town and I told her:" if this is true everything will change".

A few hours later I was with Adriana (Visura founder) on the phone and she told me: "you are the winner". I burst down in tears. It was the first time someone really took a leap of faith in me. She went on: "I always like to speak to people over the phone, hear their voices while I tell them the news, it is what makes this work worthwhile". In that moment I knew I was dealing with someone human, compassionate and loving. She saw me. I felt blesses, contained and hugged.

Since then, I can not describe what has happened. And I always read reviews of winners saying "this prize changed my life, blablabla". I am afraid I will be one of the cliches repeating that phrase. Despite Adriana's effort to make me update my website frequently, I have been so busy that I haven't been able to. If you go to my news section you'll be able to see what I did in 3 months time after the prize, I did 5 times more since then. It is not short to say that it WOULD NOT have been possible without this prize. Planetary Health Alliance gave me legitimacy, Visura gave me the strength, the support and the network. I have been published (and paid) several times all through Visura network.

I took advantage of every single opportunity that started from them. From talking to politicians to becoming a recognized name in mining research and documentation in Brazil. Adriana pushed me to do better on my research, to have fact check information ready, she helped me step up to the next level. And, as promised to her, also in that first phone call, I always end my talks saying that I am a proud Latina woman in photography, being helped by many amazing women to break a glass ceiling that exists over our heads.

I would say all is in the past, but I am afraid I wouldn't be quite honest, it is still very hard to move forward with a documentary project, specially when it is done in a completely different fashion. Nevertheless the Visura team are now people that I see as my Latin family in New York. I know they are there, ready to help me, guide me and only - or less - than a phone call way. I am never alone in this endeavor and I will be forever grateful for it.

I chose Visura to create my portfolios since their way of thinking and enabling me to design and show my works on a beautiful website caught my eye.

I love the way I am able to show my work in a horizontal 'reading' layout since most websites do not feature this. Also, the colours and fonts appealed to me a lot. Also, the way of creating new stories is wonderfully designed.

The second, and equally important, Visura enables me to show my work to the people who matter, like editors and people in the printing and journalistic industries, who would otherwise be unreachable to me. I received a wonderful assignment through Visura from BuzzFeed in order to document the right-wing development in Europe. Which is well aligned with the work I am doing.

Finally, and also important to me is the helpful way Visura is showing me in case I have questions regarding the design of my website, In less than one day I receive an answer which is helpful and clear.

Thank you to the Visura team, I highly recommend working with them!

Being part of the Visura community has opened new doors for me. Before joining, my previous websites floated on the internet in constellations of many others and were occasionally discovered by assiduous seekers. But as a member of Visura I've had a number of opportunities presented to me - for example when Scott Thode offered to create a video of my "Return" work dealing with my travels in post communist Eastern Europe that was presented in Month of Photography L.A. in 2016. Further, through Visura I was interviewed  2017 by Matthew Oxley  for the Sony World Photography blog, for a piece he titled  "Make Meaningful work." Furthermore it's wonderful to be part of a community talented photographers who are regularly being sought out by curators and editors. Lastly I appreciate being able to ask for technical support when I'm not sure how to accomplish a particular task.

I joined the Visura family in October 2018 and i have no regrets. The Visura platform is specifically designed for photographers which makes it easy to use. As a freelance documentary photographer, i sometimes feel like a web developer whenever i'm editing my website.

The Visura Team is always within reach and they are more than happy to help out when the need arises.

For many years my photographic work is visible thorough Visura services. It is a really well designed platform that helps photographers in many ways.

Having your work presented in a well designed website is something necessary this days, Visura makes that task easy for us, they do a great job making this task simple, to keep our portfolios organized with the required information that might be necessary to present what with do as photographic projects.  I really love the quick support from the Visura team to our questions and requirements.   Their job is not only to provide a technical solution for us, Visura goes far more from this, they have a vision, passion, they are in love with photography, that´s why Visura is always growing and evolving.

Visura is a window that allows other to know what I do, promotes our work as photographers and is always opening doors for photographers, sending information that might be helpful in many ways, festivals, job opportunities, etc. I'm really glad to be part of this family.

I am profoundly grateful to Visura for supporting my career from the beginning. In a competitive industry like ours as a female visual journalist of color, I find this journey extremely challenging. Without the help of the team Visura, I would never have been able reach so far.
 
Every time I did an assignment, I was praised by my editor for my website. They told me my site is easy to browse, simple and compelling. I have no resources and opportunities to travel from Bangladesh for meeting editors and showing my work. My website and presented work is my identity and this is what my clients are looking at first.

The best thing about being a Visura family is to realize that I am not alone. I have support here and this is to me is my biggest strength to work hard with honesty and commitment. If you want to be part of a growing community who believe in authenticity, growth and unity, then Visura is your platform

I am a documentary photographer, writer and content producer, and I have been a member of Visura since almost its inception.

Visura has helped me advance my career as a visual communicator through the access it grants to editors and prominent members of the photography world, as well as other visual communicators.

Most of all, belonging to the Visura family, as I like to call it, has been invaluable because it has afforded me the ongoing support of a team of dedicated and generous leaders and visionaries in the field, the Visura founders. They are the soul and the brain behind Visura, and tireless workers on behalf of photographers around the world, and for me they are the inspiration and help I need when I need it, and that is priceless in this industry and age.