Best Free Stock Photo Collections

A camera is a save button for the minds eye!

This is a comprehensive compilation of free stock photo websites. Most images fall under the Creative Commons License CC0, which means that the images are not only free, but you are allowed to copy, modify, distribute or even perform the work and can use it for commercial purposes, without asking for permission.

Only one restriction applies, that identifiable people may never appear in a bad light or in a way they may find offensive. It is still a nice gesture mentioning the name of the photographer wherever possible.

Enjoy!

Martina Pook

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UNSPLASH

Free do whatever you want high resolution, high quality stock photos. Such great quality images for personal and commercial use. You will love this one.

LIFE OF PIX

Free High Resolution Photos without any copyright restrictions for both personal and commercial use.

GRATISOGRAPHY

Another stock photo website without any copyright restrictions. 

KABOOMPICS

Free pictures for private and commercial use. 

FREESTOCKs

Free stock images for both personal and commercial use.

SPLITFIRE

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

STOCKSNAP.IO

Free from any copyright restrictions stock photos. Hundreds added each week.

PIXABAY

High quality stock images for any use without restriction. This site requires that you sign up as a member.

CUPCAKE

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

RAUMROT

Free handpicked and curated stock photos for commercial and personal use.

VINTAGE STOCK PHOTOS

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

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

FREEIMAGES

Nearly 400,000 free stock images, designs and illustrations. 

FREELY PHOTOS

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

AVOPIX

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

NEW OLD STOCK

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

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

MORGUEFILE

Morguefile must be one of the oldest and long-standing stock photo website. The images range from ordinary to high quality.

STOCKSNAP

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

PHOTOGEN

A further source  of completely free stock images for both personal and commercial use, but with a smaller collection only.

MARTINA POOK'S STUDENTS PHOTO COLLECTION

This collection of photos is kindly supplied by art students of Martina. Free reference use ONLY for fine art drawings and paintings projects.