LIVEWORK image set. Paste the ART DIRECTION block once, then ask for the shots one at a time ("Shot 1", "Shot 2") so every image stays in the same treatment.

ART DIRECTION (applies to every image)
Create a black and white editorial photograph for a premium recruiting firm. Look: 35mm documentary portraiture, natural window light with long diagonal shadows on pale textured plaster walls, warm concrete and raw wood surfaces, Southern California light. Real, candid, unposed moments: people mid thought or mid conversation, never looking at the camera, never a stock photo smile. Wardrobe is plain and quiet: black tee, white linen shirt, dark trousers, no logos, no jewelry that reads as a brand. People aged 30 to 55, a natural mix of women and men and backgrounds. Soft film grain, rich mid tones, deep but not crushed blacks, no vignette, no HDR, no gloss.
Composition rule: the subject sits fully in the LEFT half or fully in the RIGHT half of the frame. The other half is calm, empty wall or soft space, so a vertical line and text can be placed at the center. Nothing important crosses the vertical center.
Format: 3:2 landscape at the highest resolution available, then the same scene as a 4:5 portrait crop.
Never include: text, logos, signage, screens with readable content, laptops as the hero, handshakes, suits and ties, open plan offices, coffee cup close ups.

SHOTS
1. Two people in conversation across a worn wood table by a steel framed window, one listening with chin on hand. Both in the left half, right half is plaster wall with window shadow.
2. A woman alone at the same table reading a single printed page, pen in hand, in the right half. Left half is empty wall and light.
3. A man walking through a concrete courtyard carrying a jacket over his shoulder, seen from the side, in the left half. Long shadow reaching into the right half.
4. Close portrait of a woman in three quarter profile looking out a window, in the right half, soft light on her face. Left half falls to dark.
5. Two colleagues laughing while standing in a doorway, in the left half. Right half is the bright wall beside the door.
6. Hands only: one person sliding a single sheet of paper across a wood table to another. Hands in the lower left, the rest of the table empty.
7. A man sitting on a low concrete ledge outdoors, elbows on knees, thinking, in the right half. Left half is open sky and wall.
8. A parent walking with a child across a sunlit plaza, small in the frame, in the left half. Right half is an empty textured wall.
9. A woman standing at a tall window with the city soft and out of focus beyond, back to camera, in the right half. Left half is dark interior.
10. An empty chair at the wood table with morning light across it, in the left half. Right half is plain plaster. No people.

After the set: "Show all ten side by side so I can check they match. Regenerate any that do not match shot 1 in light, grain and tone."
