64. MADE IN LA
It wasn’t until the development of the web as an artistic medium that photographer and print designer Nikolai Cornell found a way to express his responses to some of the world’s great buildings. His photographic gallery, Shadow and Light, showcases and contextualizes work made on an architectural study trip in 1995. Developing the site in Flash and providing the interactive elements became a labor of love for the nonprogrammer.

Cornell used the interface itself to provide information about the geographical relationships between the sites he photographed, as the visitor navigates from a map of the European continent to the locations of the buildings. “I wanted to show the context in which my photographs were taken and how they related to the countries and cities in which they were taken,” Cornell says. “Visitors can go on their own journey through the countries I visited by allowing my photographs to tell the story.” Ken Coupland