Photo credits

No picture on Sides & Space was commissioned or bought. The theatres, rehearsal rooms and desks you see were shot by other photographers who waived their rights through CC0; we picked them out of Wikimedia Commons, where most had arrived from Unsplash or Pixabay. Follow the source link beside each image to see who took it.

Treat the images as scenery. A face in an auditorium or a hand on a script belongs to a stranger, not to a union member, a collective or anyone in the situations our guides walk through, and showing a venue is not a recommendation to book it.

Where each image comes from

• Front page banner: An empty, ornate theatre auditorium seen from the stage, with rows of red seats under a gilded domed ceiling. Photo: Avacado-pie / Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
• How to Prepare for a Cold Read Audition: A pair of black-rimmed reading glasses resting on a page of printed text. Photo: James Sutton / Unsplash, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
• Self-Tape Setup: A Practical Guide for Actors: A photo studio with a white backdrop, softbox lights on stands and lighting rigs hanging from the ceiling. Photo: Alexander Dummer / Unsplash, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
• Cold Read Series: How to Run a New-Play Reading Night: Rows of dark red seats in a small, dimly lit theatre facing a blank screen and stage. Photo: Gyrobo / Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
• Play Development Residencies: What They Offer and How to Choose One: A manual typewriter with a sheet of paper on a wooden desk, lit by a small desk lamp in a dark room. Photo: Alexa Mazzarello / Unsplash, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
• Taking a Show to the Edinburgh Fringe: A Practical Primer: A person seen from behind, with long pale hair blowing, looking across the rooftops and spires of central Edinburgh at dusk. Photo: Omar Yassen / Unsplash, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
• Rehearsal Space: How to Find, Evaluate and Book a Room: A rehearsal room with a wooden floor, an orange rug, a row of grey chairs, an upright piano and speakers on stands. Photo: Nik bezz / Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
• Online Communities for Actors: What a Virtual Membership Should Offer: A person seen from behind wearing headphones, working at a desk with a large monitor and a laptop. Photo: Glenn Carstens-Peters / Unsplash, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
• Desk Exchange and Work-Trade Programs for Artists: How They Work: A pale wooden table and two matching wooden chairs in a dim room with a dark blue floor. Photo: Jordan Sanchez / Unsplash, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
• Joining an Artist Co-op or Shared Workspace: What to Check First: The lounge of a shared workspace with a grey sofa, low wooden tables, plants and leaf-patterned wallpaper. Photo: Dan Gold / Unsplash, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
• What Is an Artist Co-op? Cooperatives, Collectives and Shared Studios Explained: An open wooden door in an old stone wall overgrown with plants, with a painted Studio sign and a small Open sign. Photo: Annie Spratt / Unsplash, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
• How Artist Co-ops Are Run: Governance Basics for Shared Spaces and Collectives: A bright, empty meeting room with long wooden tables and rows of black chairs. Photo: Breather / Unsplash, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
• Fiscal Sponsorship for Artists and Theatre Companies, Explained: A glass jar with a red lid full of coins and a folded banknote, beside a pile of crayons. Photo: stevepb (Pixabay) / Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
• Live-Work Spaces: Renting an Apartment That Doubles as an Artist's Studio: Paintbrushes, pencils and felt pens standing in pots on a cluttered desk, beside a vase of pink flowers. Photo: Ella Jardim / Unsplash, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
• How to Memorize Lines: What Research on Actors Actually Shows: The opening page of Hamlet in the 1623 First Folio, photographed from a facsimile edition. Photo: Cowardly Lion / Wikimedia Commons (public domain).

We keep two sizes of each photo, cropped to 3:2 and saved as WebP, and made no other edits. Photographers who find their work miscredited can tell Sides & Space through the contact page.

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