Photography Portofolio
A high-performance Analog Film Photography Portfolio built with Next.js and Sanity (Headless CMS). This project implements a dynamic, image-first masonry layout while leveraging advanced image optimization and caching strategies to significantly reduce content delivery costs and ensure a fast, up-to-date user experience.
Overview
Challenge & Goal: To create a visually stunning photography portfolio that effectively displays a large volume of high-resolution images, while overcoming the common performance and cost issues associated with heavy media loading on the web. The key objective was to minimize hosting/CDN costs and ensure the latest content is always available to the user.
Solution & Technology: The portfolio is engineered using a modern stack: Next.js for its powerful static generation and image optimization capabilities, and Sanity.io as a flexible, type-safe Headless CMS for managing the photography content.
- Optimized Masonry Layout: A responsive masonry grid was implemented to maximize visual impact across all devices. This layout relies on Next.js's architecture to efficiently load only the images necessary for the current view.
- Cost & Performance Reduction: Implemented strategies such as dynamic image resizing, lazy loading, and modern image formats (e.g., WebP) to drastically reduce bandwidth consumption and image loading cost.
- Cache Policy Management: Utilized Next.js's data fetching capabilities (likely Incremental Static Regeneration) to enforce a strict and strategic cache refresh policy. This ensures that new content is published quickly and that users are served the latest images while minimizing build times and maximizing the efficiency of CDN caching.