Woophy is a site for photographers who love to travel..
or travelers who love to photograph. Either way, Woophy’s members are amateur and professional photographers and photojournalists who take their work seriously. The site’s home page has a map of the world with tiny images as squares on the map, marking photos that users have contributed from this location. As your mouse hovers over the image, you can see the name of the city and country it’s over, and a thumbnail image of tone of the photos in this collection. Click on it and the site brings up a scrolling slideshow of this user’s images on the right side of the page. At the bottom of the page are fun facts about the world, such as: 13.7 percent of all people in the world speak Chinese. Also the site features a Member of the Month, who presumably has contributed excellent photos to the site. Woophy also has photo contests (right now the topic is World News) and a forum for discussion.
Woophy.com In Their Own Words
“Woophy stands for WOrld Of PHotographY, a website founded by a Dutch collective of photo aficionados and internet designers who believe navigation on internet can be more visual, logical and associative. The goal of Woophy’s founders is to create an accessible, visual, current, democratic and collective work of art comprised of a database picturing our remarkable world.
With the help of (amateur) photographers across the world we strive to ultimately cover every inch of our world map with images that represent the world’s beauty and peculiarity from all different cultural perspectives. Users upload their photos for free into a personal account protected by a password, or download pictures in high quality for personal use. User email addresses and passwords are not shared with any third parties whatsoever.”
Why Woophy.com It Might Be A Killer
Aspiring travel photographers will find inspiration and a place to show their work at Woophy. The photos are of professional quality and good taste. The site is very neatly designed and simple.
Some Questions About Woophy.com
It is not made clear how the Member of the Month is chosen, nor does the site seem to have a clear purpose besides showing peoples’ photography. Is there a business aspect or a way for photographers to get their work published for money? 
