Giovanni had been publishing on Adobe Portfolio for years — dozens of live shows, editorial commissions, and personal series stacked in a default template. The work deserved a home that matched the grain and pace of the photographs themselves.

The brief shifted from an index grid to something closer to flipping through a roll: black field, one frame at a time, scroll as the only navigation. No tiles, no masonry — just the photograph and the metadata that belongs to it.

Photography as contact sheet, not pitch deck

The layout borrows from proof prints and darkroom contact sheets: one frame in focus, neighbors visible at the margins. Nothing competes with the photograph in the center.

Features

1. 1Snap-scrolling filmstrip with blurred peek frames above and below the active photograph
2. 2Fixed sidebar with project metadata that updates on scroll intersection
3. 3Sanity-backed gallery with drag-to-reorder, per-project metadata, and hotspot crop
4. 4Embedded Studio so Giovanni can add new shows without a deploy
5. 5Next Image with Sanity CDN, AVIF/WebP, responsive srcsets