About PhotoDeck

PhotoDeck’s mission is to empower independent photographers with the best technology to market and run their business online.

We believe in:

  • Giving back control to photographers: we work hard to make sure that PhotoDeck adapts to your business, not the other way round. That’s why we develop tools that give you unprecedented control over your website and your pricing structures, way beyond what you’ve been used to.
  • Getting out of the way: your clients are your business – we provide you great tools and stay in the shadow.
  • Being nice people with a friendly business approach: no long-term contract, no commission taken from our members’ own sales, no setup fee, no senseless SEO promises…
  • Direct member feedback: we don’t care about what our competitors do, all we care about is whether our solution helps you.
  • Powerful, but easy-to-use features – because all our work is vain if you can’t leverage it easily.
  • Performant software code that makes good use of the latest web technologies. The software behind PhotoDeck is built in-house, continously reviewed and improved. We hate half-baked “solutions”, so we’re used to going the extra mile.

We’re different

  • We’re small. Our members get to interact directly with the founders. It gives us flexibility and responsiveness our competitors can only dream of.
  • We’re independent. We have no external investor to please, so we can focus fully on our members.
  • We’re lean. We don’t have fancy offices. In fact we don’t have anything that would distract us from working on improving the product.

Meet the founders

Prior to creating PhotoDeck, J-F Maion spent 11 years managing projects and helping grow new businesses at the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturer, specializing in new online projects.

An avid photographer since he was 13, he launched in his spare time his own stock photography website as a pre-PhotoDeck experiment (and managed to gather over 6000 visitors a day).

J-F also enjoys providing support to PhotoDeck members to better understand their needs.

He speaks fluently four languages and has lived in five countries. He is currently based with his wife in Helsinki, Finland.

Read the story behind PhotoDeck »


A CTO usually brings down-to-earth realism to product ideas. Cedric, PhotoDeck’s geek-in-residence and J-F’s brother, makes ambitious feature plans even more ambitious — before translating them into working software (and the code better be clean!).

When he was 15, Cedric set out to write his own graphical operating system (he succeeded). As a teen, he also created a complete accounting application, still in commercial use 20 years later.

A graduate in computer sciences, his 10-year corporate career then led him to design and manage multi-million dollar IT infrastructures.

Cedric lives with his partner and their young daughter in Lyon, France.



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