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53 Free Stock Photo Collection Sites

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This is likely the most comprehensive listing of stock images sites on the Web. Almost all images fall under the Creative Commons License CCO, which means that these images are not only completely free, but you are allowed to copy, modify, distribute or even perform the work for both  private and commercial use, without asking for permission.

The artist of photographs who include their work used for the CCO licence has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law. Only one restriction applies, that identifiable people may never appear in a bad light or in a way they may find offensive. And it is still a courtesy gesture mentioning the name of the photographer wherever possible.

Unsplash   001


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Free do whatever you want high resolution, highest quality stock photos. Almost better or same quality than paid stock photos, for personal and commercial use. You will love this one.

Pixabay   002


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Over 1 million high quality stock images including vectors and illustrations.  Use of photos are without restriction. This site requires that you sign up as a member.

Life of Pix   003


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Free High Resolution Photos without any copyright restrictions for both personal and commercial use. Organised by the Leeroy advertising agency in Montreal and its connective of photographers. 

Pikwizard   004


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Over 100,000 completely free images with over 20,000 of those are exclusive to Pixwizard. New images are added daily and they have the goal to reach over 1 million images free to use without attribution. 

Kaboompics   005


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Comprehensive free pictures for private and commercial use. 

Styled Stock   006


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A feminine photography site with free beautifully styled images for any projects. 

Freestocks   007


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Free stock images for both personal and commercial use.

Burst   008


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Most of Burst's high quality images are originals through in-house works. Some photos are licensed under Creative Commons CC0 while others fall under Shopify’s own photo license.

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Martin is offering his high quality photographic images for free commercial and private use with a guarantee of being 100% original. No watermark, no attribution. 

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Browse over 500 million images, available for reuse at the creative commons. This is probably the largest site on the Net. 

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Another high resolution stock photo website without any copyright restrictions run by Ryan McGuire.  

Splitfire   012


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Instant download of high quality images for free. Do what you want usage. 

StockSnap.io   013


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Completely copyright free restrictions of stock photos. Hundreds added each week.

Cupcake   014


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Another quality website created by Jonas Wimmerstroem former Nilsson Lee who offers a Creative Commons License CC0 for his images. 

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A great collection of vintage photos from the 50's, 60's and 70's from around the world. Brilliant if you are looking for images with a free commercial license from that time.

Freerange   016


Picture Free Range Stock Images
Photos from this site are either shot by Freerange Stock, drawn from Freerange archives, or contributed by talented community of photographers. 

Free Images   017


Picture Free Images Link
Nearly 400,000 free stock images, designs and illustrations. 

Freely Photos   018


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A collection of Christian free stock photos for churches and related use.

Avopix   019


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More than 120,000 images under the Creative Commons Zero Licence. They also offer vectors and videos. Also check out www.facebook.com/avopix.

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This free stock photo site lists vintage photos from the public archives that are free of known copyright restrictions. Unfortunately this site has no search option.

Pexels   021


Picture Pexels
Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos from different sources licensed under the Creative Commons Zero license. All photos are nicely tagged and searchable.

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A no-frills but well designed and high quality free stock photography site. They also offer a free photo editor.

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Free stock photo source.  Viktor Hanacek started this site when his stock photos were rejected for "lack of quality" by major providers. Two years later, people have downloaded more than two and half million quality pictures from picjumbo.

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Over 3 million free high quality creative commons licence photos.

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This free stock photo site is run by photographers living in Groningen, Netherlands. It is meant as a site to find, show and share public domain images.

Barn Images   026


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Owned by two Latvian photographers who offer photographs for free that are not found on any other sites, with new added weekly images. 

Bucketlistly Photos   027


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This site contains over 7000 travel photos with CCO licence all taken by photographer Pete Rojwongsuriya. 

Death To Stock Photo   028


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This site works on a free or premium subscription basis and releases monthly photo packs for creatives. 

Fancy Crave    030


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Fancy Crave offer stock images that can be searched by category or country. 

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Graphic designer and photographer Jay Mantri produces photographs that will fit design projects of any kind. 

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A free stock site fully dedicated to nature photography, run by Adrian Pelletier. Images can be used in whatever way you like. 

Picography   033


Picography Picture
Another rather smaller free stock photo site in comparison to the many others we have listed, but images are of high resolution and quality.  

Foodiesfeed   034


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A tasteful resource of free food and food related high quality stock images created by various different artists. The site intends to become one of the largest food stock image sites. 

Public Domain Archive   035


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100% free stock photos, including for commercial purposes. What I like about this site is that most images say what they are about or where a landscape has been taken. 

Paint My Photo    036


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Please note that the images listed with "Paint My Photo" can only be used as reference material for paintings and drawings. They are NOT to be used for any other commercial use other than painting. 

Magdeleine   037


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A hi-resolution photo every day into your mailbox. Magdeleine also has a range of photos online. 

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This site offers free graphic designs, background, templates, vector, art fonts and png images. There is also a premium section for more content.  

Reshot   039


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Handpicked, non-stocky and uniquely free photos to use as you wish. 

Negative Space   040


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High resolution CCO licensed free stock photos for personal and commercial use.

SplitShire   041


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Maybe not at large a number of free for commercial use images, but of highest photographic quality. Just over 1000 images. 

Public Domain Pictures    042


Public Domain Pictures Net
CCO licensed photographs that can be downloaded either for free or as premium at a higher resolution.

The Commons   043


The Commons Picture
A connective of the world's largest organisations incl. the Library of Congress, other National Libraries and Historical bodies. Combined it is the largest collection of domain free preserved historical material. 

ISO Republic   044


ISO Republic Picture
The English designer and photographer Tom Eversley has a substantial free and premium stock photos selection. Unique is a small section of free videos. 

Startup Stock Photos   045


Startup Stock Photos Picture
Another stock photo resource for everyone. 

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Displays hundreds of high quality, high resolution stock photos for FREE. Another incredible website you will enjoy.

Little Visuals   047


Little Visuals Picture
This free stock photo site is maintained by the family of Nic Jackson, who died suddenly in November 2013. They wish to make the work of their son accessible to everyone. Images can be used in any way you want. 

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Snapwire is a site that offers a simple service for everyone to create photographs of your choice especially made to order. But they also offer a 7 free images per week subscription into your mailbox. 

MorgueFile  049


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Morguefile must be one of the oldest and long-standing stock photo website. It appears a bit old fashion and the images range from ordinary to high quality. Please not that the images are not CCO, which means you must change part of the image to create art from it.

Travel Coffee Book    050


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The travel coffee book says it all. It is a travel photo collection of the highest quality and resolution images that is growing. 

Martina's Photo Collection    051


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This collection of photos is kindly supplied by martina and her art students. Free reference use ONLY for fine art drawing and painting projects. 

Old Book Illustrations   052


Picture Old Book Illustrations
You can search this book illustration stock photo database by subjects: animals or people, landscapes or buildings; Artists: Gustave Doré, John Leech, Charles H. Bennett etc.; or by Titles: Æsop's fables, Punch, L'Illustration...

Adorka Stock   053


Picture Adorka Stock Logo
This site was created by artists for artists and offers around 3,000 drawing reference photos of different poses of both male and female models. 

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