Every photograph here was made by a person behind the camera.
Blue ice
Photograph by Shang Li
An iceberg close enough that its face fills the frame — old air trapped in layers, the waterline dead level.
- Made
- 6 July 2024
- Focal
- 200 mm
- Aperture
- f/7.1
- Shutter
- 1/2500 s
- ISO
- 500
Atelier is a curated collection of photographs you buy by asking your AI assistant. Tell your agent what you need; it finds frames, shows you who made each one. Nothing here is generated or scraped.
https://store.atelierphotos.app/api/mcpAdd it to your AI assistant as a connector, then ask for what you need. Setup guide
- Photographs
- 67
- Galleries
- 5
A model can make any image you describe, but it wasn't there.
The light that day, the tide somebody waited hours for, the personal touches. Atelier connects you to the photographers who made the frames. Every photograph carries the name of its maker, and every license forbids the buyer from using it to train an AI model.
How it works
Atelier is added to your assistant once, as a connector. After that, buying a photograph is a conversation.
1You ask
Say what you need, in your own words — a subject, a colour, a feeling.
“A wallpaper for my phone. Somewhere green and still.”
2It shows you frames
Your assistant comes back with a few photographs, each with the name of the person who made it, the gallery it comes from, and its price. Looking is free and needs no account.
Inside the canyon
Shang Li
3You pay, and keep it
Choose one and pay on a checkout page you open yourself — your assistant never sees your card — or spend a credit from a subscription. You sign in with a link sent to your email. The file is yours to download, and to download again, for as long as you need it.
Photographs
A few frames by the photographer who runs Atelier — the kind of picture the collection is made of. Ask for one by subject, by colour, or simply by a feeling: somewhere quiet and green finds frames even when no caption uses those words.
Two horses
Photograph by Shang Li
Heads almost touching, manes blown out of shape, a field gone soft behind them.
- Made
- 4 July 2024
- Focal
- 117 mm
- Aperture
- f/2.8
- Shutter
- 1/3200 s
- ISO
- 640
One bird, two walls
Photograph by Shang Li
A gull crossing the gap between two forested faces, the valley beyond them dissolving into cloud.
Inside the canyon
Photograph by Shang Li
A fall dropping into a slot of moss-covered rock, the pool at its foot still in shadow.
- Made
- 3 July 2024
- Focal
- 16 mm
- Aperture
- f/18
- Shutter
- 1/8 s
- ISO
- 500
The last leaf
Photograph by Shang Li
One oak leaf still upright in the drift, the morning sun barely over the trees.
- Made
- 21 December 2024
- Focal
- 70 mm
- Aperture
- f/16
- Shutter
- 1/160 s
- ISO
- 800
Ridgelines in cloud
Photograph by Shang Li
Each ridge a shade paler than the one in front, until the last is only a guess.
Moon over the canopy
Photograph by Shang Li
One tree taller than the rest, catching the low sun, with the moon clear of it in an open sky.
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For photographers
Atelier is also, simply, a place to deliver your work. Selling optional. Leave it off, and it is a photo gallery and stays a private photo gallery.
Join the photographer waitlistWhat it does
- Upload a shoot and sort it into tabs.
- Hand a client the link. Decide whether they can download the originals, and collect an email first if you want one.
- Switch on “Sell this gallery” and an assistant can find its photographs and buy them.
What stays yours
- Nothing is offered to an assistant or put up for sale until you switch it on, one gallery at a time.
- Every new gallery starts private, and opens only for someone with its access code until you choose to make it public.
- Your photographs are never used to train an AI model, and every license sold here forbids the buyer from using them to train one.
Pricing
Buy one photograph when you need one, or subscribe for a few each month. Either way you pay on a checkout page you open yourself — your assistant never sees your card.
- One photograph$9.99Each collection sets its own price. Pay once by card, and nothing renews. On a subscription the same photograph costs 1 credit.
- Monthly$5.99 a monthThree credits a month. Unused ones carry over.
- Annual$49.99 billed annuallyThe same three credits a month, bought for the year: thirty-six at once, a third off.
Subscribe through your assistant, the same way you buy. Cancel whenever you like. Every photograph you bought stays yours, and you can download it again for as long as you need it.
Buying through your assistant
https://store.atelierphotos.app/api/mcpAdd this address as a connector in your AI assistant’s settings, then just ask for what you need. Looking costs nothing and needs no account; to buy, you sign in with a link sent to your email — there is no password. A new account starts with 3 credits free, for screen files.
The license
One license covers every photograph: personal use, version 1. Use the image on your own devices and personal projects, forever. No resale, no redistribution, no commercial use, no AI training.
You may
- Set the image as a wallpaper, lock screen or background on devices you own
- Print it for your own home or as a personal gift
- Use it in personal, non-commercial projects and posts, with credit where practical
- Keep and re-download it after a subscription ends
- Crop, resize and adjust it for your own use
You may not
- Reselling, sublicensing or redistributing the file, altered or not
- Any commercial or promotional use, including for a business you own
- Using it as part of a logo, trademark or product for sale
- Including it in a dataset used to train machine-learning models
- Removing or altering authorship information supplied with the file
Read the full text
PERSONAL USE LICENSE (v1) You are granted a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, non-transferable license to use this image for personal, non-commercial purposes. YOU MAY: use the image on devices you own, including as a wallpaper or lock screen; print it for your own home or as a personal gift; include it in personal, non-commercial projects; and crop, resize or adjust it for those uses. This license does not expire, and it survives the end of any subscription through which you obtained the image. YOU MAY NOT: resell, sublicense, rent or redistribute the image file, whether altered or not; use it for any commercial or promotional purpose; incorporate it into a logo, trademark, or product offered for sale; or include it in any dataset used to train a machine-learning model. The photographer retains copyright and all rights not expressly granted here. This license may be terminated if its terms are breached, or if the purchase through which it was granted is reversed or refunded.
In effect since 1 January 2026. If these terms ever change, the change applies only to new purchases — whatever you bought, you keep on the terms you bought it under.