Lens Studio

Lens Studio is a Squarespace 7.1 template by Square Design, sold through the SquareKicker template store, built for photographers who want a clean portfolio with a little motion. The demo is a solo photographer: a live-the-moment hero, an about-me teaser, a your-world-seen-differently statement, testimonials, a contact-me prompt and an Instagram strip in the footer, with a Portfolio page of three projects (Summer Sun, Culinary Poetry, Little Farm), an About Me page with specialities (portraits, events, daily reports, corporate and editorial) and a travel-through-my-pictures gallery, a Project Example page with a you-might-like-these strip, Contact, a privacy policy and a 404. The old listing had the audience right but counted four pages instead of seven and missed the project page template.

What you get

• Seven page layouts: Home, Portfolio, About Me, Project Example, Contact, Privacy Policy and a 404, on Squarespace 7.1 with Fluid Engine
• A Portfolio index and a Project Example page you duplicate for each shoot, with a related-projects strip at the bottom
• An About Me page with a specialities list and a large gallery, and a Contact page with a form and your details
• Sixteen featured sections (hero, about, portfolio, testimonial, contact, services, gallery, 404, legal, footer) to reuse on any page
• SquareKicker animations: footer reveal, scroll effects, link cursor and sticky section, editable while the extension is active
• A pale blue, red-orange and yellow palette that changes in the Squarespace style editor
• A one-off purchase with a free 30-day SquareKicker extension trial

Who it suits

Portrait, event, editorial and lifestyle photographers with a few strong projects to show and no need for a shop. It also suits a videographer or a visual artist who works project by project.

Honest limits

Projects are hand-built pages, not a gallery collection, so each shoot means duplicating Project Example. There is no client gallery, proofing or print sales: use Pic-Time, Pixieset or Squarespace commerce for those. No blog, no pricing page and no booking in the demo; embed Acuity or Calendly if you sell sessions. The palette is bright and unusual for a photographer, so expect to restyle it. The animations are SquareKicker features that stay in place after the 30-day trial but need a subscription to keep editing.

How it is delivered

SquareKicker templates install through the SquareKicker Template Engine onto a new or existing Squarespace 7.1 site: connect the free SquareKicker extension, pick the template and it installs in a few clicks, with the choice of keeping your existing site styles or replacing them with the template's. There is no duplicate site to copy from. The purchase is one-off and includes a 30-day SquareKicker extension trial; you need a Squarespace Core plan or higher to publish, and SquareKicker template buyers get 10 per cent off a Squarespace plan.

Related guide: compare it with the other portfolio sites in our Squarespace templates for photographers collection, or browse the Squarespace templates hub.