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startupstockphotos.com

startup
A creative team with Macs, scribbling against the backdrop of a New York red brick loft? No problem, this site is full of them. You will be able to claim to be the most hyped start-up of the moment.

unsplash.com

unsplash
Inspirational photos with Instagram filters to reflect on the meaning of life. Ideal for a background image when you have to illustrate the incomprehensible job of a client. Browsing in the form of an infinite stream is quite painful but fortunately, a nice developer has devoted himself to creating a search engine in order to be able to sort this phenomenal quantity of photos: arthurweill.fr/Unsplash/en
In the same spirit, many other sites exist, of which here is a non-exhaustive list:
• littlevisuals.co
• picography.co
• isorepublic.com
• getrefe.tumblr.com

foodiesfeed.com

foodies
In table! If you weren't hungry, this site will take care of you and make you salivate. Focused only on food, this site offers pleasant navigation with original sorting functionalities.

images.superfamous.com

superfamous
Traveling and contemplative. That pretty much sums up this little catch-all photo collection. Very nice photos seen from the plane.

picjumbo.com

picjumbo
Picjumbo is “just another stock photo website”. Including the usual foulli of bokeh photos, mountain landscapes/Instagram or even corporate offices. However, this site has the great advantage of having a very precise classification and a Photoshop plugin.
In the same spirit of stock photography with proper classification, here are some additional links:
• imcreator.com/free
• magdeleine.co
• raumrot.com
• negativespace.co

stocksnap.io

stocksnap
Stocksnap stands out from PicJumbo and its competitors by offering search by keyword, a classification by tags, and above all a list of the photos most appreciated by the community… which has rather good taste.

nos.twnsnd.co

newold
New old stock: authentic vintage photos offered in bulk. This site is not the only one on the niche. The giant Flickr also offers a huge library of photos that have fallen into the public domain: flickr.com.

accuracies.com

accuracies
Despite its more than dubious navigation, this site is a great resource for finding photos of Everyman. It brings together typologies of people encountered daily in the street. Very useful for creating personas.

freeography.com

gratisography
A site ranging from bizarre to completely barred. A stock that changes quite a bit from the basic “inspirational” photo. It's one of the only free alternatives to creative images on paid sites like Getty or iStock.

mazwai.com

mazwai
This time, we're going to talk about video. Free stock video sites are particularly rare and the quality is not often there. Mazwai offers many, often magnificent timelapses but also everyday scenes. On the competition side, Vimeo is one of the serious players (like Flickr for the photo):
• vimeo.com/groups/freehd
• videezy.com
• vidsplay.com
• videvo.net

videos.pexels.com

pexels
Always on the side of the video, Pexels is a breath of fresh air of good taste and quality. It has a search by tags and offers mockup videos: a rare commodity on the side of free stock sites.
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Thibaut Tanguy – UX-Activist @ UX-Republic