# Photography

Real people outdoors, doing things together, beside engraving, printmaking and honest art. Photographs carry the colour of the brand. Part of the [SoR design system](README.md).

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**Placeholders:** every photograph in the system and examples is a **mood board placeholder, not cleared for public use**. Use them freely in mockups and examples; replace or clear them before anything goes public.

## Choose

- People and children in real places, warm and unposed. Joy that isn't staged.
- People carrying, making, sharing: hands, food, stones, soil.
- Engravings, woodcuts, collage, drawing and printmaking (Doré fits).
- Pairs: something mythic beside something ordinary and human.
- Landscapes with weight (mountains, fields) for heroes and the night section.

## Avoid

- Glowing sunrise paintings, auras, cosmic light: the new-age look.
- Glossy lifestyle, luxury or stock photography.
- Too many black-and-white images together; the page goes cold.
- Faces lit like adverts.

## How images sit on the page

- **Hero:** one full-bleed photograph, a soft dark scrim behind the text, a torn edge into the page. The default is `stones.jpg` (two women carrying stones by a lake).
- **Plates:** inside a page, images are figures: `<figure><img …><figcaption><span class="fig-no">Fig. 2</span>Carrying stones by the lake.</figcaption></figure>`, numbered in order down the page. Heroes and pathway cards are not numbered.
- **No prints:** photos sit clean and flat, never on a white mount, rotated or shadowed like a postcard. Don't use `.print`.
- Crops: 4:5 for pathway cards and selected work, 3:2 for statements and events, 4:3 for a plate beside a hero.