Photo management software for Education and Research

Centralize photos, videos and visual assets in one secure library. Organize, manage and share content with staff, students, researchers and the public, from everyday school life to research projects and institutional communication.

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Trusted by universities and research organizations worldwide

From primary schools and higher education institutions to research institutes and scientific organizations, Piwigo helps organizations organize growing photo and video collections, collaborate more efficiently and share visual content with staff, students, partners and the public.

Higher education institutions

Organize visual assets across faculties, departments and campuses for communication, student recruitment and institutional projects.

Primary & secondary schools

Manage photos from school life, educational activities, events and communications while making them easy to share with families and staff.

Research institutes & laboratories

Store and organize research images, fieldwork photography and project documentation in searchable collections that remain accessible over time.

Educational networks

Provide multiple schools or institutions with a shared platform while allowing each organization to manage its own content independently.

Scientific organizations

Preserve and publish images that support scientific outreach, institutional communication and long-term documentation.

Training organizations

Manage photos and videos for courses, events and communication in one centralized and searchable media library.

Common challenges for education and research organizations

Education and research organizations produce thousands of photos, videos and scientific media across classrooms, campuses, laboratories and institutional events.

Common challenges include:

Photos are scattered across staff members, departments and shared drives
Communication teams spend too much time requesting and searching for photos and other medias
Years of school life, events and research projects become difficult to organize and preserve
Different audiences need different levels of access
Growing photo libraries become increasingly difficult to search and maintain
Sharing photos publicly without losing control can be challenging.

Piwigo provides a secure, centralized photo library that keeps your visual assets organized and accessible over time.

How education and research organizations use Piwigo

Organize school life and institutional communication

Centralize photos and videos from classrooms, campus life, educational activities, graduation ceremonies and institutional events.

Keep communication teams supplied with approved visuals for websites, brochures, social media and internal communications.

Document research projects

Organize photos, videos and scientific images produced during laboratory work, field studies and research projects.

Use albums, tags and metadata to keep years of research documentation searchable and easy to retrieve.

Share visual resources with every audience

Publish public or private galleries for students, families, teachers, researchers, partners or the general public.

Create dedicated access rights for each audience while maintaining full control over your content.

Support teaching and training

Organize image collections used for courses, training programmes and educational resources.

Give teachers, trainers and learners easy access to the right visual content whenever they need it.

Cover conferences and events

Collect, organize and share photos from conferences, seminars, open days, graduation ceremonies and scientific events.

Provide participants, speakers and partners with direct access to event galleries after each occasion.

Preserve your institution's visual history

Keep years of photos and videos organized, searchable and accessible.

Build a long-term visual archive that documents your institution's activities, achievements and evolution over time.

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Discover how Piwigo helps education and research organizations organize, preserve and securely share large photo libraries.

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Why education and research organizations choose Piwigo

Easy for everyone to use

Scales with your library

Built for collaboration

Your data stays yours

Open source and sustainable

Communication teams, teachers, researchers, staff and students can organize, find and share photos without extensive training.

Whether you're managing photos from school life, institutional events or research projects, Piwigo grows with your collection without becoming harder to manage.

Enable teachers, researchers, communication teams and external contributors to work from the same media library while maintaining full control over permissions and access rights.

Unlike many proprietary platforms, Piwigo does not lock you in. Export your content for free whenever you want.

Piwigo has been continuously developed for more than 20 years and is trusted by schools, educational institutions and research organizations worldwide.

Why education and research organizations choose Piwigo

Easy for everyone to use

Communication teams, teachers, researchers, staff and students can organize, find and share photos without extensive training.

Scales with your library

Whether you're managing photos from school life, institutional events or research projects, Piwigo grows with your collection without becoming harder to manage.

Built for collaboration

Enable teachers, researchers, communication teams and external contributors to work from the same media library while maintaining full control over permissions and access rights.

Your data stays yours

Unlike many proprietary platforms, Piwigo does not lock you in. Export your content for free whenever you want.

Open source and sustainable

Piwigo has been continuously developed for more than 20 years and is trusted by schools, educational institutions and research organizations worldwide.

Host it your way

Choose the deployment model that matches your organization's security, IT and compliance requirements. Whether you prefer a fully managed cloud service or hosting on your own infrastructure, Piwigo gives you complete flexibility.

Piwigo Cloud

Fully managed by the Piwigo team.

Piwigo Self-hosted

Deploy Piwigo on your own infrastructure.

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ICAM :
A shared photo library for 11 campuses

Before Piwigo, each campus managed its own photo library independently. Icam needed a single platform where communication teams could centralize content while keeping full control over access rights and image usage.

Today, Piwigo helps Icam organize its photo library, eliminate duplicate files, speed up image retrieval and simplify collaboration between campuses and external service providers.

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What education and research organizations say about Piwigo

We needed a solution that was quick and easy to set up, enabling us to technically manage a large image database with indexing, metadata management and search capabilities akin to a DAM solution, a real publishing and sharing interface with access rights management, operational interfacing with the school's information system and seamless integration into my Lightroom workflow.

I chose Piwigo to have a photo library shared between our 9 campuses in France, India, Congo and Cameroon. Everyone can add and use files on our shared space. We can also give access to our external service providers: it saves us time and improves efficiency. The features are complete, the support is responsive and the price very competitive.

I am writing to compliment you on your photograph organization software. I am a pathologist, and I use this to organize photomicrographs for teaching and distribution to colleagues. It is easy to use, easy to understand, requires minimal maintenance, and my colleague have no trouble getting what they need. I appreciate having access to such a great product.

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Photo management software for Education and Research

Trusted by universities and research organizations worldwide

Higher education institutions

Primary & secondary schools

Research institutes & laboratories

Educational networks

Scientific organizations

Training organizations

Common challenges for education and research organizations

How education and research organizations use Piwigo

Organize school life and institutional communication

Document research projects

Share visual resources with every audience

Support teaching and training

Cover conferences and events

Preserve your institution's visual history

Explore the features behind these use cases

Why education and research organizations choose Piwigo

Easy for everyone to use

Scales with your library

Built for collaboration

Your data stays yours

Open source and sustainable

Why education and research organizations choose Piwigo

Easy for everyone to use

Scales with your library

Built for collaboration

Your data stays yours

Open source and sustainable

Host it your way

Piwigo Cloud

Piwigo Self-hosted

See how education organizations use Piwigo

ICAM : A shared photo library for 11 campuses

What education and research organizations say about Piwigo

Ready to build a shared photo library?

ICAM :
A shared photo library for 11 campuses