Assuming you're not thinking of radically changing the "why" behind your site, if you want a text-led simple site with a few pictures, you're on the right host already - there's some customisation available which you're not using. A blog format would give your users everything they needed.
If you really want an artfully-designed picture-led site you're probably not looking at "simple". I'm reasonably technically literate and reasonably interested in good design. I did a bit of hunting around before using blogger, and realised that anything fancier would have a much steeper learning curve, would be very difficult to maintain, and also be expensive.