Case study / Editorial visual archive
A photography archive built so 30 images work as a journey: narrative, series, motion, and accessible exploration in Spanish and English.
Summary
raw.vives turns a photography collection into a static editorial product. The home shapes the narrative, the archive makes images discoverable, and series preserve continuity across real, directly accessible URLs.
Photographs felt isolated, repeated, and entered with an overly uniform visual treatment. The challenge was to give each image a purpose and create continuity without turning the site into an effects demo.
Product and visual direction, frontend architecture, content modelling, curation, motion, accessibility, localized SEO, tests, and continuous delivery.
Verified stack
01 / Editorial
A black-and-ivory editorial direction lets photography become the interface. Curation gives hero, story, chapters, and selected work distinct roles; a limited grammar of masks, soft scale, and contextual transitions adds rhythm without hiding content.
Next.js App Router generates localized static routes. Central data resolves photographs, series, and navigation; the archive combines search, categories, and editorial order; details preserve fullscreen, previous/next, and ?series= context with a global fallback.
Three manual sequences group authentic relationships or documented editorial affinities. Every photograph keeps its own detail page and, when opened from a series, previous, next, and return follow that order.
GitHub Actions validates types, lint, 67 tests, build, and export before deploying the static site to Cloudflare Workers with a token limited to the Worker and its route.
Published product
Accessibility, performance, and SEO
Challenges, decisions, and trade-offs
The work prioritised verifiable photographic relationships, one central configuration per system, and progressive enhancement. Carousels, horizontal scrolling, new shaders, and per-card effects were rejected to protect clarity, memory, and navigation restoration.
Measured results
The validated result contains 30 photographs, 3 editorial series, 73 static routes, and 67 tests. No unmeasured traffic, conversion, or feedback claims are included.
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