Stock Photo Sites

123rf

From the about us page: “As a 100% bootstrapped company since 2005, we have grown to be one of the world’s largest digital stock agency with an evenly distributed global footprint. 123RF has helped a wide clientele of individuals and businesses tell their stories using creative imagery, sounds and motion contributed by talents from around … Continue reading 123rf

Alamy

"We’re easy to work with, we’re non-exclusive and we don’t tie photographers in with exclusive / long term contracts. We don’t edit our collection, contributors choose what they want to sell."

Backyard Stock Photos

"Backyard Stock Photos is the source of unique and vibrant images from Steve Heap …"

Blend Images

"The world today is made up of diverse people that shape how we live and work. While the human experience changes constantly, some universal truths remain: we love, we feel, we triumph, we hope and dream …"

Burst (by Shopify)

"Burst is a free stock photo site that is powered by Shopify. We have 1000’s of high quality and royalty-free images available and free to download…"

Cineberg Productions

"Cineberg is a professional video production company that focuses on Stock Media, Training, Workshops, and Custom work for clients, from concept to shooting and editing …"

Colorstock

"Colorstock is the first curated stock photo marketplace featuring people of color. All people of color …"

CreateHER Stock

"CreateHER Stock is simply a grassroots resource - a go-to digital space for stock imagery that can be used for lifestyle, business, and even everyday content creation for bloggers, creatives, and online influencers of color …"

Crestock

From the about us page: “Crestock is a growing player in micropayment royalty-free stock photography, helping clients with small budgets find creative images for their projects. With a fast and reliable image upload system, Crestock also gives photographers and illustrators a great platform for licensing their creative work.”

Death to Stock

Free membership / premium membership Our free membership is a sampling of our media, alongside community initatives and is limited to email. Our premium membership is a media library you can login to anytime, that hosts our searchable archive of everything we’ve ever produced and new media added each month that is exlusive to premium … Continue reading Death to Stock

Dreamstime

“75 million stock images, world’s largest stock community, 20 million users” Also featuring a large collection of Royalty-Free and public domain (CC0) images that you can download and use – for free.

Epicantus

"Finding images that carry the right message usually takes hours, therefore every photo I make in my spare time will appear here for you. All of them are free for personal & commercial use …"

Foodiesfeed

"Food photographers from all around the world share their photos under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license to help accomplish …"

fotolia

“Fotolia is powered by a diverse international community of artists, graphic designers and agencies who bring you tens of thousands of new and unique images, illustrations and videos every single day. Fotolia’s Infinite Collection was the first to offer the choice of both crowdsourced and professional images on one convenient site…” Currently featuring over 110 … Continue reading fotolia

Free Nature Stock

“Royalty-free Nature Stock Photos. Use them however you want. Created by Adrian Pelletier. Updated daily.“

Getty Images

Probably one of the biggest Stock agencies on the market, featuring stock media in four main sections: Creative, Editorial, Video footage and Music.

Gratisography

"Free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects, free of copyright restrictions…"

innerstock.com

“I am a photographer selling photos online. Innerstock is my shop for selling photos. Today I have 2000 images in my portfolio with both editorial and commercial photos. Most of the photos are exclusive.”

iStock

“iStock by Getty Images is one of the world’s leading stock content marketplaces, offering millions of hand-picked premium images at ridiculously low prices that you can only get from us.” Commissions paid to photographers range between 15-45%

Kaboompics

"Kaboompics is one of the most popular source of free images for lifestyle, interior design and specialized bloggers in World …"

Life of Pix

"Free high-resolution photos, no copyrights restrictions for personal and commercial use. New photographies added weekly! All images are donated to the public domain …"

MMT

"The content spans many categories, including nature, city scenes, workspaces, and macro photography. These photos can be freely downloaded, used, and redistributed for both personal and commercial purposes …"

Morguefile

"Free photo archive 'for creatives, by creatives' –  all photos found in the Morguefile archive are free for you to download and re-use in your work, be it commercial or not."

nappy

nappy provides beautiful, high-res photos of black and brown people to startups, brands, agencies, and everyone else. For free.

NegativeSpace

"Our goal in launching NegativeSpace is to give photographers a platform whereby they can share their photography with the world. We want to provide those out-of-focus surroundings so the beautiful high-resolution images …"

New Old Stock

"Vintage photos from the public archives. Free of known copyright restrictions. Recapturing History."

Pexels

"Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license…"

PhotoDune

Royalty free stock photo market place by Evanto, starting from $2.

picjumbo

"picjumbo is free stock photo site created in 2013 by designer & photographer Viktor Hanacek. It all started when all of the regular stock photo sites rejected his photos for 'lack of quality' …"

Picography

"Picography has been providing stunning images to millions of people for the past 3 years. It is now one of the top sources for gorgeous, high-resolution, free photos …"

picture-ireland.com

“We promote and sell incredible Irish photography by the best hand picked fine art photographers. Browse stunning Irish landscapes in the County Galleries or buy prints from our Catalogue.”

pixabay

“Pixabay is a vibrant community of creatives, sharing copyright free images and videos. All contents are released under Creative Commons CC0, which makes them safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist – even for commercial purposes.“

refe

"We provide high-quality imagery of people interacting with technology for your projects."

shot stash

"You are allowed to use our images for any commercial or non-commercial purposes. However, the image copyright is still the property of its author …"

Shutterstock

“Shutterstock is a leading global technology company offering a creative platform for high-quality assets, tools and services.” Currently featuring over 184 Million royalty-free stock images.

skitterphoto

"Skitterphoto was launched in 2014 by amateur photographers with day jobs from Groningen and Drenthe in The Netherlands. We decided to let our pictures go and publish them online on our own website …"

stockafe.com

“We are an ever-growing community of photographers, artists and design professionals who have been immersed in the stock photo industry since the term “microstock” was coined, and we are constantly looking for a better way to do things…” (Stockafé is currently closed for Remodeling)

StockSnap.io

"Whether you're building a business website, creating a print brochure, crafting a digital or magazine ad, or some other brilliant creative project, you know that a great image helps your content transcend…"

Stocksy

Stocksy is a relatively new player on the stock photo market. Photos offered can be licensed under the Standard Royalty-Free License or one of the extended license options. They also offer an option called Market Freeze: “License the exclusive rights to our images and videos.” About us: “Stocksy is home to a highly curated collection … Continue reading Stocksy

Styled Stock

"You are allowed to use our images for any commercial or non-commercial purposes. However, the image copyright is still the property of its author …"

TONL

"TONL seeks to transform the idea of stock photography by displaying images of diverse people and their stories around the world …"

Unsplash

"With a huge library of photos and thousands more being added each day, chances are we’ve got a photo for you…"

Women of Color in Tech

Photo collection at flickr.com – all images available under Creative Commons Attribution license.