Photoprism 📸

I’m currently “managing” (or better say storing) my photos using Nextcloud. Whenever I take photos with the camera, I copy them to a YEAR/MONTH based folder structure. Also the photos from my phone get automatically uploaded to a folder with all phone photos.

But Photoprism looks awesome. 😍 It’s still in development (seems like it’s already in that state since 2018 - but there are recent commits, so I guess this project is still alive), but the demo is quite promising. It’s like a self-hosted version of Google Photos. The repository promises some nice features:

Clearly structured Web interface for browsing, organizing and sharing your personal photo collection

Import everything without worrying about duplicates or RAW to JPEG conversion

Geocoding, XMP support and automated tagging based on Google TensorFlow

Nice fact I found: The maintainer of Photoprism was responsible for developing the “Mediencenter” for Deutsche Telekom from 2007 to 2009. Back then it had browser-based features like photo editing, “photo editing, ordering photo books, sharing to other cloud services, creating various types of playlists/albums, music/video streaming to devices from phones to set-top boxes, Solr-based search, a complete Windows Explorer-like file manager incl drag & drop, and much more. On top, everything had to work in Internet Explorer 6.” (Wiki)

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