Shopping for a Branford-like theme

A number of years ago I ran across the Brandford Magazine style template for WP. I really liked it because it filled the page – very little white space. What I mean by little white space is that the photos butt up against each other – possibly with a thin black border – and ran from one side of the screen to the other. The pictures on the examples seemed to jump out at you, more so than dozens of other themes I looked at. That theme has not been updated – is now “depreciated” I would like to find another magazine theme that has little white space on the page – the descriptions are place at the bottom over the bottom part of the picture. I have just looked at over a hundred themes and find that the preference now seems to be to put lots of white space. Is this just a popular personal choice, or is there a technical reason for this? I will have 5-6 topics on my blog and possibly will add one or two more later, so will want the ability to have many categories on the home page plus a place showing the most recently uploaded picture. I don’t mind putting in the hours to find something but I am just not finding anything close to what I want and am hoping to get either links or search words that might help me narrow the choices down to what I want.