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)
