Yeah, jellyfin is more on the consuming side of the stacks. I have NextCloud that does most of the uploading/synching business, getting photos from my phones or tablets or laptop; qbittorrent for taking movies around and put in on the disk, etc.

Eventually all those data would be on a directory on the computer disk and that’s where the consuming side starts.

It really does not have to be Jellyfin that does the photos job, but it’s already there for music and movies and photo display seems decent. Of course I’m still experimenting (atm trying also Photoprism) so if there’s a better option, please feel free to recommend.

I’d honestly prefer something web-based with phone apps. I’ll rather be careful with volume mounting and make additional copies of files, including cloud backup, to avoid data loss.