Central storage for family photos

My wife and I have seperate apple IDs however I have setup family sharing. To gain space on our iPads, iPhones I recently purchased a 200gb storage plan. Fantastic all my photos are on the cloud and accessible from any of my devices.
I want to share this storage with my wife so we have a central place for all our family photos.
Question:
1. Is it possible to share storage space for photos?
2. If the answer to the above is no, how would people recommend we manage our photo storage so everything is stored in a single location to view on devices?
thanks in advance.

icloud backs up everything on your iOS5 device to the cloud, but there is no way of accesing this stuff directly. Its only for emergency cases to restore your device from the web.
idisk is no more, so you can't use iCloud as space for files . You can only sync or manually upload iwork09 comaptible office files ( using a browser at icloud.com/iwork ) . , this feature is only available if you have iOS pages,numbers or keynote installed. Again : no other files are storeable by yourself.
Gallery and Homepage is no more , you can't share Pictures or Videos with anyone else but yourself :
Photostream is only streaming your recent pictures across your devices that use the same Apple-ID. Videos are NOT included at all in the stream.
icloud is in no way what MobileMe was. If you look for features of MM, you must search outside of Apple.

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