The old /gallery/ path suggested photographs. This rebuild does not scrape the Wayback Machine for other people’s pictures. The images on this site are original editorial illustrations — walnut, mustard, denim and songsheet — made for the magazine, then stored as AVIF and WebP.
That choice is an ethic as much as a design. A rebuilt domain that hotlinks a 2018 gig photo it does not hold rights to is not a gallery. It is a problem.
What you will see here
- Hero pictures that behave like magazine posters, not like stolen reportage.
- Hub cards that repeat the palette so the site feels like one issue.
- Captions that describe the picture, not a fictional crowd.
If a future editor adds a photograph, it will carry a credit, a date, and a consent note for faces in the frame. Until then, treat every picture as illustration.
How to look at a folk room
When you do take your own pictures at a festival or club:
- Ask before you put a phone in a session circle.
- Do not photograph ceremony you were not invited to record.
- Prefer the instrument and the light to a stranger’s tired face in the front row.
- Check the official event’s media rules. Some weekends ask you not to shoot the headline tent.
The folk spotlights gallery is a companion essay about spotlight pages and pictures. Features is where the writing sits.
A gallery should make you want to go out and look with better manners. If it only makes you want to scroll, it failed.