Website Review – Photographer: Anders Bergh

When I graduated in 2004 I was hired at an Advertising Agency right outside of Charlotte NC. At this point in time it seemed as though flash was on the rise and it was all over the place. It was very intriguing to me and I quickly adapted it as a useful medium. I started off doing full flash sites such as Splash Zone USA and some of my older personal portfolio sites. It was fun at the time but I seemed to migrate back to static sites with dynamic elements. Now, I hardly use flash unless its for special one off projects but I still love to browse full flash sites because they seem to engage the viewer more since there is a higher level of interactivity.

Some of my favorite flash sites to look at are Photography sites. Most of them seem to be very simple and dedicate 98% of the site to viewing the image. I recently came across a website for a photographer, Anders Bergh. Not only is his site very clean and simple but it showcases his unbelievable talent.

The site displays all the images in rows and columns and makes use of the scroll wheel on your mouse if you have one by allowing you to scroll up and down with ease. When you click on a photo it zooms in, allowing you to either view the image in extremely clear detail or view the image as a whole. I personally think this feature is useful on landscape photos not “Mug Shots”, no one wants to zoom in on someones nose hairs, do they? If you are zoomed in you can navigate left or right by clicking on either side of the photo and you can zoom back out by clicking on a menu that appears when you hover over the center. The personal info is tucked away neatly at the top and only appears if your cursor gets about half and inch away from leaving the browser window.

Overall I think APT Copenhagen did a great job on displaying this photographers work, you almost forget that it is a website because it is so different than you basic static site.  What do you guys think?