Why I stopped using stock photography
It makes everything look like everything else. A few notes on what I use instead.
Stock photography answers a question nobody asked: what would a generic version of this look like? The answer is always the same smiling people at the same white desk.
What I do instead
- Photograph the real thing, badly, rather than a fake thing, perfectly.
- Use flat colour and type where a photo was only decoration.
- Commission one honest portrait and use it everywhere.
This site currently uses stand-in photographs, and I will replace every one of them.