Photosgraph for Organizations

A better way to share event photos with your community — without the privacy headaches.

The problem with posting photos on your website

When your organization posts event photos directly on your website or Facebook page:

No consent process. You're publishing photos of people without a structured way for them to approve or opt out. If someone objects, you have no system to handle it.
Scattered everywhere. Photos end up on your website, Facebook, a Google Drive link, someone's email — there's no single place for the community to find them all.
No one contributes. Only the person with website access can post photos. Everyone else's photos from the same event stay on their phone forever.
Old photos get lost. Historic photos from past decades live in shoeboxes, filing cabinets, and forgotten hard drives. There's no way to bring them together.

The photosgraph approach

Instead of posting photos on your website, create a photosgraph album for each event. Then link to it from your website. Here's what changes:

Consent is built in. Every person tagged in a photo controls their own image. No photo goes public without the approval of every identifiable person in it.

Kids stay in the group. Photos that include children are shared within the group album only and can't go public — so families can enjoy event photos without worrying about where they end up.

Everyone contributes. Every member can upload their photos from the event. Instead of 30 photos from one person, you get 300 photos from everyone who was there.

People find themselves. Tag people in photos and they're automatically connected. Anyone can find every photo they appear in, across every event.

Anyone can remove themselves. If someone doesn't want to appear in a photo, they remove it. No awkward conversation needed. It's their right, and the platform enforces it.

One link for your website. Instead of uploading photos to your website, just add a link or embed widget. Photos are managed on photosgraph. Privacy is handled for you.

How it works

Create an album for your event

Sign up for a free account and create a group album — "Easter Service 2026," "Summer VBS," "Annual Picnic." It takes 30 seconds.

Invite your community

Share the album link in your bulletin, email newsletter, or announcement screen. Anyone who joins can upload their photos and view the full collection.

Everyone uploads and tags

Members upload their photos directly from their phone. Tag the people in each photo so everyone can find themselves. Name people who aren't on the platform yet — they'll get invited to join.

Consent happens automatically

Every tagged person controls their own image. Photos can go public only when every person in them approves. You don't have to manage consent — the platform handles it.

Link from your website

Add a link to your album on your website, or use our embed code to show a photo preview. The photos live on photosgraph. Privacy is handled for you.

Two ways to use photosgraph

Most organizations have both of these needs — and photosgraph handles them in the same place.

Live events

Create an album before or after your event. Everyone who was there uploads their photos. The whole community sees the complete collection — not just the 20 photos the social media coordinator picked.

Church services, baptisms, VBS

School events, field days, concerts

Games, tournaments, team banquets

Galas, fundraisers, volunteer days

Reunions, conferences, retreats

Old photo archives

Scan or photograph old prints and bring your organization's history to life. Tag the people in them. Connect decades of photos through the people who appear in them.

50 years of church history in photos

School yearbooks and class photos

Historical societies and local archives

Military units, veterans' groups

Family archives and estate photos

Bringing old photos to life

Every organization has boxes of old photos — prints, slides, negatives, framed pictures on the wall. They're a treasure, but they're also trapped. Nobody can find them. Nobody knows who's in them. And every year, the people who could identify the faces get older.

Photosgraph turns a static archive into a living, searchable collection — because the photos are organized around people, not dates or folders.

How to archive old photos

Scan or photograph the prints. A phone camera works fine. Scanning apps like Google PhotoScan give better results for glossy prints. Even a photo of a photo is better than leaving it in a box.

Create an album for each era or collection. "First Baptist Church 1970s," "Danville High Class of 1985," "Mom's Photo Albums." Group them however makes sense.

Upload and invite people to help tag. This is where it gets powerful. Invite the people who remember the faces. They can tag members, name non-members, and mark deceased individuals respectfully.

Watch the connections form. As people are tagged across albums, photosgraph builds a graph of who was where, when, and with whom. A person tagged in a 1975 church photo and a 2024 reunion photo is connected across 50 years.

Tip: Don't wait for perfect scans. Start with phone photos of your best prints. Invite 2-3 long-time members to start tagging. You can always add better scans later — the tags and connections stay.

Put it on your website

You have three options, from simplest to most integrated:

Easiest

Add a link

Just add a link to your photosgraph album anywhere on your website. Works with any website builder — Wix, Squarespace, WordPress, or plain HTML.

            <a href="https://photosgraph.com/album.php?id=YOUR_ALBUM_ID">

              View our Easter Service photos on Photosgraph

            </a>

Recommended

Embed a branded button

Copy and paste this code into your website. It creates a nice button that links to your album. Change the album ID and text to match your event.

<a href="https://photosgraph.com/album.php?id=YOUR_ALBUM_ID"
   style="display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:8px;
          padding:12px 24px;border-radius:8px;
          background:#2563eb;color:#fff;
          font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;font-size:15px;
          font-weight:600;text-decoration:none;">
  <img src="https://photosgraph.com/images/pg_icon_white.png"
       width="20" height="20" alt="">
  View Easter Service Photos
</a>

Preview:

View Easter Service Photos

Advanced

Embed a photo preview

Show a preview of your album's public photos directly on your website. Only public, consent-approved photos appear. Requires a small code snippet.

<iframe src="https://photosgraph.com/embed.php?album=YOUR_ALBUM_ID"
        width="100%" height="400" frameborder="0"
        style="border-radius:12px;border:1px solid #e2e0db;">
</iframe>

Embed preview coming soon. For now, use the link or button approach above.

Need help getting set up?

We'll walk you through creating your first album, inviting your community, and adding the link to your website. It's free and takes about 15 minutes.

Email Us for Help Create Your First Album

Why not just use Facebook or Google Photos?

	photosgraph	Facebook	Google Photos	Your website
Everyone uploads	Yes	Posts only	2-person	Admin only
Consent required	Built in	No	No	Manual
Children protected	Private only	No	No	Your liability
Person can remove themselves	Immediately	Untag only	No	Ask admin
No ads		Ad-supported	Ad-supported
People findable across events	Automatic	No	AI faces	No

Free for your organization

Unlimited albums, unlimited uploads, unlimited members. Photosgraph is free and will stay free for communities like yours. We're a Public Benefit Corporation — our mission is to give every person control of their image.

Create Your First Album — Free

No credit card. No ads. No data selling.