Image-first stories
Every post opens with its photograph at full width. Words follow, with room for the where, when and why.
Invite-only photo stories
Every photograph has the rest of the story.
FernPrint is a community for photographers who write. Stories open with the picture, profiles read like portfolios, and anyone can read and reply without signing up.
- Free to read
- No reader accounts
- No ads, no counters
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For invited writers.
Accounts are by invitation.
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Photographs: Unsplash
What you get
Built like a darkroom. Reads like a feed.
The parts of a social app that help you look at pictures, without the parts that make you count them.
Profiles like portfolios
Cover banner, portrait, bio and a grid of posts, sorted into the writer’s own categories.
Replies with just a name
No account needed to join a thread. A moderator reads each reply before it goes up.
Follow by RSS
Every profile has a feed. Follow a writer in the reader you already use, no inbox required.
Anatomy of a story
A post, the way a photographer would lay it out.
- 01
The frame
The cover photograph leads, edge to edge, on the story and on every card that links to it.
- 02
The meta line
Small and monospaced: date, reading time, category. Only facts the site actually knows.
- 03
The text
Comfortable measure, a contents list on long posts, and type that handles Vietnamese tone marks properly.
- 04
The thread
Replies underneath, oldest first, with the author’s own answers marked.
On your phone
Small screen, full frame.
Pages are plain HTML and CSS, sent ready to read. Photos keep their proportions, nothing jumps while it loads, and there is no app to install.
- Readable without JavaScript
- No cookies for readers
- Full Vietnamese typography
Reading is free. Publishing is by invitation.
Tell us what you photograph and what you would write alongside it.