Web Design
A rebuild of a fine-art photography archive of New York City — thirteen sections, each opening as a film and dissolving into its photographs.
Visions of NYC is a fine-art photography portfolio of New York — architecture, interiors, street photography, cityscapes, the TWA Flight Center, and more. It is strictly photography: no blog, no store, no clutter. The rebuild needed to honor a large, numbered archive and make browsing it feel like an experience rather than a slideshow.
We treated the archive as cinema. Each of the thirteen sections opens with a hero film behind a towering compressed title, then dissolves into its contact sheet: a grid whose columns drift at slightly different speeds as you scroll. The interface stays in the darkroom — near-black, no colored panels — so the photographs supply every color. Monospaced numbering keeps the archive’s order visible, and any photo opens into a full-screen lightbox with keyboard and swipe navigation.
Outcomes: A photography archive that feels like a screening — thirteen sections with their own films, a grid that moves with the reader, and an interface that steps back so the city can come forward.