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My wife and I both have Android phones, and in Ente, all new photos are automatically added to a "Camera" album. So we share those with each other, and that gives us access to everything we need. Hopefully they eventually do partner sharing (it's possible with E2EE, I'm guessing it just wasn't super high on the priority list).
I loaded up all our existing photos first, and they are in separate albums. I could share new ones like that but to see existing ones would be tricky.
Yes, E2E would be possible by extending what they have done for albums, but it does post unique challenges that you don't think about (when the photos are encrypted with your password, how does your partner decrypt the photos?). They talk about their setup on their architecture page.
I'm sure it will come eventually but it's still reasonably new and they are a small (but growing) team. Things are still actively in development. They have recently added an experimental video streaming capability which I thought was cool. Previously you had to download the whole file first so it could be decrypted. Now they are breaking up the video into pieces and encrypting those pieces individually - this also means reencoding the parts so they are also retaining the original file. This has a storage implication but for now they are not charging for that extra space.