Advantages & Disadvantages of Online Galleries – General

Advantages

• Wide availability – wide demographic reach
• Easy access
• Cheap to view
• Feedback collection
• Reduced distance between audience and author
• Reduced bureaucracy (public liability insurance, etc.)
• Cheap to stage – no printing, mounting, framing costs; no venue costs; no commission costs
• Permanence
• Flexible hours (open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week)
• (Theoretically) unlimited number of simultaneous visitors
• Background can be tailored to images (not always possible with a physical exhibition)
• No time, distance, space limitations
• Updateable
• Removes risk of damage to which physical prints may be subject

Disadvantages

• Off the shelf options/subscription based packages may not offer a theme in keeping with the style of images
• Technical knowledge required to build/customise website
• Ongoing subscription costs (hosting plans, etc.)

Output of project brainstorming session – 24 March 2018

(Contemporaneous notes)