Image & Media Sources

Image & Media Collections

 (Public Domain Content Sources)

1. Pexels: Pexels is a website with more than 3 million free, open (Pexels license), high-resolution photos and videos.

2. PICNOI: Free stock photos featuring images of people of color

3. PIXNIO: Pixnio is a site with free, high-quality public domain images that are tagged and categorized.

4. Public Domain Vectors: A massive collection of openly licensed vector graphics that are available to download in SVG, AI, and EPS formats.

5. Smithsonian Open Access: Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images

6. Unsplash: Unsplash is a website dedicated to sharing stock photography under the Unsplash license.

7. Wikimedia Commons: A collection of almost 80 million freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.

8. The Internet Archive: A non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

9. AllGo Plus-Size: Photos featuring plus-size models by Michael Poley of Poley Creative for AllGo, publisher of free stock photos featuring plus-size people.

10. Black Illustrations: A collection of categorized illustrations of Black people. Some collections are free, some are for purchase.

11. Creative Commons LibGuide: The CC LibGuide has additional options for places to find CC licensed works.

12. Disabled And Here: Disabled And Here is a photo and interview series celebrating disabled Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC).

13. EDUimages: A free library of photos celebrating students and the educators who teach them in seven schools across the US. Licenced: CC BY-NC 4.0

14. Flickr Commons: The Flickr Commons is for photos from institutions that want to share their digital collections in the public domain.

15. The Gender Spectrum Collection: The Gender Spectrum Collection is a stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models.

16. Images of Empowerment: A free library of images celebrating women’s lives and their work in 11 countries around the world

17. Nappy: Beautiful photos of Black and Brown people, for free.

18. The Noun Project: Comprehensive icon collection, most available for free use with attribution

19. Open Peeps: The library works like building blocks made of vector arms, legs, and emotions. You can mix these elements to create different and diverse Peeps.

20. Openverse: Over 500 million openly licensed images in Creative Commons, available for your reuse in all kinds of OER (with proper attribution).