Calder
A five-page Astro theme for documentary and editorial photographers: poster-scale kinetic titles, a pinned image stack, a horizontal scroll pan and a chromeless lightbox. Built for photographers and the developers who build their sites.
Six screens from the live demo. Scroll or step through.
Calder is a five-page photographer portfolio theme, built around scroll choreography instead of static galleries. A full-bleed opening frame with the name at poster scale, a pinned image stack that covers plate over plate, a horizontal pan driven by vertical scroll, and one moment per series where a print grows from book-plate size to full-bleed. Every series is generated from a single JSON file, so adding a new body of work is an edit, not a new page.
Calder is a photographer portfolio template built with Astro, for developers and freelancers making sites for photographers. Buy it once and use it on as many client projects as you like.
What you edit
- site.json: photographer name, statement, location, email, phone, Instagram
- series.json: your projects, generated as pages automatically, reorder or add photo blocks freely
- about.astro and contact.astro: the bio and commission copy
- public/img: your own photography
What is in it
Try it free first
Erin Calder Lite is the free one page HTML cut of this theme: same design, no build step, no sign up. The full theme adds all 4 colour packs, the JSON data layer and the working parts above.
