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Here's my perspective for what it's worth:
If you're a small site with small traffic, shared hosting is fine. What shared hosting means is that your provider buys a server and puts a number of separate, independent web sites on it. You're essentially sharing space with other small web sites, but neither you nor your customers will really notice. There's nothing wrong with this arrangement until you start getting a lot of hits and serving a lot of bandwidth.
The players in this space seem to be a dime a dozen. Dreamspace is probably the most well known. One of their advantages is that they supply a number of pre-loaded applications (a blog, a shopping cart, a forum, etc.) that you can turn on for your domain with just a click. The disadvantages are they have been wildly successful, which has resulted in questions about whether they are hosting more sites than they can handle. I personally left them because I couldn't stand the amount of spam I was getting, and the tools they were providing weren't doing anything about it. I honestly don't know who else is big in this area, but I can tell you you'll be hard put to distinguish between the features and pricing offered by many of them.
Maybe a pro account + a custom domain at smugmug or one of its competitors would suit your needs? If all you're looking for is a place to show your photos, that might do it.
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