Website · Kaden Baker Photography
A photography archive that reads like an exhibition
Designer and developer, built end to end for Kaden Baker, a working photographer based in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Live on kadenbaker.com.
69
Photographs online
7
Collections
2
City landing pages
11
Routes accessibility checked
The problem
Kaden had photographs and no place for them. The work was sitting in folders and on Instagram, where a senior portrait and a night sky over a county road disappear into the same feed. He needed one site that could hold the whole archive, let someone book a session, and turn up when a person searched for a photographer in their town.
The process
I built the archive first. 69 photographs sorted into 7 collections by how they were made rather than the year they were taken: Portraits at 10, Commercial at 13, Abandoned and Nature at 12 each, Cars at 11, Cities at 8, and Astrophotography at 3. Every photograph carries its own alt text and a longer note that opens with the frame, so the site reads the same to a screen reader as it does to an eye. Headings rise word by word, galleries run as filmstrips, and any frame opens large.
The decision
I kept the page quiet and let the photographs carry it: a warm cream ground, one dark ink, and nothing decorative competing with the work. I wrote two separate landing pages rather than one, one for Thibodaux and South Louisiana and one for Tyler and East Texas, because people search for a photographer by place name and a single page cannot speak for both. Booking got its own three step flow: pick a date on a calendar, choose a time, then your details, so an inquiry arrives with the date already attached.
The result
The site is live on kadenbaker.com with 69 photographs online across 7 collections. The inquiry form and the booking flow both send a notification email the moment someone uses them. Kaden manages the archive from his own studio login, so new work goes up without touching code, and an accessibility check runs across 11 public routes on both desktop and phone.
Selected pages
