10 Stock Photography Sites You Need To Check Out Now [2022]
I love beautiful images! I could sit for hours and look at stock photography sites admiring all the amazing photographers and the beautiful images they have created. Today I’m sharing 10 stock photography sites that are pure eye candy.
Whenever possible I try to take my own photos. But some days you are short on time or need a photo you can’t take yourself. There are so many amazing sites out there with free stock photos! These sites deliver premium stock photo website quality without the fees! With so many great free stock photos available your only problem is going to be having TOO many photos to choose from!
The following 10 stock photography sites are free to use with no sign up needed!
updated October 2022
10 Stock Photography Sites You Need To Check Out Now
The Best Free Stock Photo Websites
Unsplash
My favorite stock photography site is Unsplash. Hands down. It’s awesome and my go-to for when I need a photo for my blog or Instagram. They recently added visual search, where you can drop an image in the search and find other visually similar images. I haven’t seen this on other stock photography sites yet and it’s genius! When it comes to top stock photo sites they are the best. You’ll find free stock images on tons of relevant and trending topics.
Check out my profile on Unsplash and download free stock photos I’ve contributed!
Photos may be used for commercial and non-commercial purposes. No permission needed, but attribution is appreciated.
1. Photo by Pat Whelen on Unsplash, 2. Photo by Jocelyn Morales on Unsplash, 3. Photo by Kharytonova Antonina on Unsplash
Pexels
The photos AND videos on Pexels are stunning. Stunning. The moment I found this site I fell utterly in love with it. I could sit and scroll for hours through the gorgeous collection of photos and videos on Pexels. You can browse through different collections, including collections recommended for you.
Pexels offers you free stock images and videos you can use anywhere you want. Attribution is not required.
1. Photo by Daria Shevtsova from Pexels, 2. Video by cottonbro from Pexels, 3. Photo by Vladislav Murashko from Pexels, 4. Photo by Miftah Rafli Hidayat from Pexels
Kaboom Pics
By photographer Karolina Grabowska, Kaboom Pics, is filled with amazing photos. In addition to scrolling through images or searching for specific images and viewing by color, photos are also grouped by photoshoots. This comes in very handy if you are looking for matching photos for one post or project! Simply look through her stock photo collections for cohesive images!
What really makes Kaboom Pics stand out is that Karolina includes a complimentary colors palette alongside every photo. Once you click on a photo you can decide on a file download size, see six complimentary colors in the palette next to it and scroll down to see related images.
Photos are free for commercial and noncommercial use. Attribution is not required.
RESHOT
Reshot is technically not photos, but you still need to know about this free icons and illustrations site!
Thousands of icons and illustrations at your finger tips. Add them to your blog posts, presentations, social media posts, landing pages and more.
These icons and illustrations are free for personal and commercial use!
Styled Stock
Styled Stock features feminine stock photos making them perfect for blogging and instagram. There are lots of soft palettes and beautiful bright images to use. They also have a blog filled with lots of great posts for bloggers. You’ll find lots of food styling, cozy home and office shots, beauty and boss lady images.
Free use for any commercial or non-commercial purposes. No attribution required, but links back to Styledstock.co are appreciated.
Pixabay
What’s really cool about Pixabay is that in additional to free photos and videos, they have free music too! You’ll find lots of gorgeous travel, nature and portraiture photos here.
Whats also unique about Pixabay is that you can filter photos by vertical or horizontal. I absolutely love that feature.
Photos are free for commercial and noncommercial use. No attribution required, but it is appreciated.
1. Image by Andreas Lischka from Pixabay, 2. Image by Victoria Borodinova from Pixabay , 3. Image by icsilviu from Pixabay
Burst
Burst is by Shopify and was created for their community of online store creators. Open to anyone to use, these images have been created with blogs and websites in mind.
Their free stock photo library has both Creative Commons Images and Royalty-Free Images. These licenses allow for personal or commercial purposes. No attribution required, but giving credit to the photographer is appreciated.
1. Photo by Brodie Vissers from Burst, 2. Photo by Brodie Vissers from Burst, 3. Photo by Sarah Pflug from Burst, 4. Photo by Sarah Pflug from Burst
Negative space
Photos are grouped by categories on Negative Space, but you can also browse by color which comes in very handy. There’s lots of variety to choose from.
Images are available under the Creative Commons CC0 license and can be used for personal or commercial purposes. No attribution required.
1. By Candace McDaniel in Objects, 2. By Foodie Girl in Food, 3. By Bob Richards in Architecture
Stock Snap
On Stock Snap you can search or view by category or by what’s trending. They have lots of great shots of people, especially family images. Plus hundreds of photos are added every week. Meaning you’ll always have fresh images to choose from.
StockSnap uses is the CC0 license, you can use the images for both personal and commercial use and no attribution is required.
1. Photo by Matt Bango, 2. Photo by Direct Media, 3. Photo by Direct Media
Life of Pix
Created by the web design agency LEEROY, Life of Pix features high resolution photography. East week a different photographer is featured on the home page. You can search or browse by gallery or photographers. They also created Life of Vids were you can download gorgeous videos.
There are no copyright restrictions for personal or commercial use.
1. Photo by Shahbaz Sheikh, 2. Photo by Paul Jousseau, 3. Photo by Celin May
Be sure to read the licenses of these photo sites. You should always know the terms of use before you use a photo. Yes, they are free stock photos, but certain restrictions may apply.
While you don’t have to give attribution to the photographer a lot of these sites encourage you to give them credit as a courtesy and thank you for using their photo. When you can give credit it really is the nice thing to do!
Here’s a quick list of all ten sites:
- UNSPLASH.COM
- PEXELS.COM
- KABOOMPICS.COM
- RESHOT.COM
- STYLEDSTOCK.CO
- PIXABAY.COM
- BURST.COM
- NEGATIVESPACE.CO
- STOCKSNAP.IO
- LIFEOFPICS.COM
With so many great free stock photos available your only problem is going to be having TOO many photos to choose from!
There are tons of free photography sites out there! I could keep going, but these are my favorite 10 stock photography sites that stand out from all the rest so I’ll stop here.
Freebie Stock Photos
You can also grab free photos from these creators by signing up for their email lists!
- Hello You Designs: Stock photo freebies.
- Haute Stock: Sign up and get free stock photos emailed to you monthly.
- She Bold Stock: A sampling of 20 free stock photos.
- Ivory Mix: 550+ pieces of content including stock photos!
- Styled Stock Society: 25 free stock photos for women entrepreneurs.
- Make Your Blog Beautiful: Free resource library with stock photos and more.
- Oh Tilly: 15 free styled stock photos for bloggers, boss babes and creative entrepreneurs.
- Pixistock: Content-to-Profit Roadmap, a 30 day content plan and FREE, lifestyle stock photos and templates.
- Death to the Stock Photo: Occasionally get free photo samples sent to your inbox.
- Magdeleine: A free high resolution photo shared to the site every day.
- Social Squares: Weekly Instagram action plan + 20 free images.
- Katie Harp: Over 50 free styled stock photos.
- Girl Boss Stock: 20+ free stock photos + mockups
- Julie C Butler: Freebie vault including on brand stock photos.
Have a favorite stock photography site I didn’t list? Drop it in the comments for all of us to check out!
xoxo Naomi
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Thank you for sharing, it’s always good to have several options for stock photos! I try to use my own photos when I can but sometimes you just need a stock one for whatever reason and it can be hard to know where to start. Definitely saving this resouce!
Thanks Becky! Same here. It’s always nice to have good resources to use when you need them.
So many great choices here! I have heard of a few of these before, especially Unsplash which I use all the time when I need a stock photo. But there are a bunch that are new to me. Looks like I’ll be doing some photo exploring this week!
As a content creator I use Stock Photos but hadn’t heard of most of these sites. Thank you so much!