What are your favorite sites to find openly-licensed or royalty-free diverse images (stock photos, etc.) of people?
This topic has come up multiple times on the CCCOER Community of Practice email list, so I wanted to reach out to the global open education community. I’ve made this a wiki, so add resources below or add a comment on how you find diverse images.
Collections of resources:
- CCCOER: https://www.cccoer.org/edi/looking-for-images-that-reflect-edi/
- Open Oregon: http://faq.openoregon.org/open-images
- Southern New Hampshire University: Images - Open Educational Resources (OER)
EDI Focused Image Collections:
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Images of Empowerment: Free images of women’s lives and work, created by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and Getty Images; License: CC-BY-NC-4.0
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Allgo Plus-Size: Free stock photography collections featuring plus-size people; License: While attribution is not required, please credit
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Disabled And Here: Free stock photography featuring disabled BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color), varied body sizes/types, sexual orientations, and gender identities in the Pacific Northwest; License CC BY 4.0
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The Gender Spectrum Collection: Free stock photos of trans and non-binary people, licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Nappy: Free high-resolution photos of black and brown people, licensed Creative Commons Zero (CC0)
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PICNOI: Free photos of people of color; no attribution required, but can give credit by linking to site
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#WOCinTech Chat: Free photos of women and non-binary people of color working in the Tech field; licensed CC BY #WOCinTech Chat or wocintechchat.com
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Redefining Women Icon Collection: Icons of women; License: Creative Commons Public Domain CC0 1.0
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Open Peeps, Hand-Drawn Illustration Library vector style graphics (all licensed CC0)