Sharing Photos on Macbook Air

My wife and I now have a new Macbook Air with two user accounts (both Admin level).
My wife has an iPhone and I now have an iPhone & iPad.
I loaded all our historical photos onto her account (from our old shared MS running laptop).
The photos from my iPhone/iPad loads up into my account
and the photos from her iPhone load up into her account.
Obviously, if I want to access our historical photos I can logon to her account But is there an easier way?
How does file sharing work and would this allow us to easily share photos (& files, etc).
Many thanks...
Obviously, we are new to Apple laptops and systems although have been using iPhone and iPad for some time.

Hi Tim,
This article will tell you how to set up and use a shared iPhoto library -
iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L 

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