Maren Holst

01 — The brief

Maren Holst is a wildlife and landscape photographer whose work we follow. Her existing portfolio is built on a templated photographer-focused platform — competent, but it flattens the work. We rebuilt the site as an editorial magazine to see what the photographs would look like with the layout they deserve.

02 — The approach

1. 01

   Full-bleed hero, generous gutters

   Each image gets the room a magazine spread would give it. Captions sit in the margin with EXIF metadata — focal length, shutter, aperture — so technically literate viewers see the craft and casual viewers see the picture.

2. 02

   An indexed selected-works gallery

   Instead of an infinite-scroll grid, the gallery is paginated by series with a contents-page index. This treats the body of work as a portfolio you read, not a feed you scroll.

3. 03

   A featured series spread

   The home page hands one current series the full-width treatment with editorial typography — title, dek, and a paragraph of writing from Maren. The site behaves like an issue with a cover story.

4. 04

   A real print shop on the back end

   Limited-edition prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag with edition numbers, archival certificates, and Stripe checkout. A working commerce surface, not a 'contact for prints' link.

03 — What we shipped

• Full-bleed editorial layout with EXIF captions
• Indexed gallery with series-level pagination
• Featured-series spread with editorial copy
• Limited-edition print shop on Stripe
• Press index for editorial credits
• Quiet contact flow split by inquiry type — editorial / expedition / commercial

04 — What we'd ship next