
HEIR’s core images come from lantern slide and glass plate negatives held in college, library, museum and departmental collections within the University of Oxford. HEIR (Historic Environment Image Resource: At the University of Oxford “contains digitised historic photographic images from all over the world dating from the late nineteenth century onwards.
Created to bring diversity and cultural representation into the photography community.” CC0
Nappy: “High-resolution freely-licensed photos of black and brown people for use by startups, brands, agencies, and the public. Images of Empowerment: A free library of images celebrating women’s lives and their work in 12 countries around the world. We sought out to create a space where publishers, bloggers, website owners, marketers, designers, graphic artists, advertisers and the like can easily search and find diverse multi-racial images.” CC-BY. We recognize that most other free stock image sites have very few or no images of people of color. PICNOI: “We are a coop of stock image photography. Textual descriptions provide context for the materials “to inspire people to use and reuse the media and data on offer there to advance knowledge and create new works.” The New York Public Library Digital Photography Collections: From The New York Public Library‘s collections, digital photograph collections containing more than 800,000 digitized items. We have scanned and digitally enhanced these art prints into high resolution, and they are available to download under the CC0 license” Public Domain Images: “Discover original artworks from our own library of public domain books and chromolithographs. Flickr: The Commons: The Commons was launched on Januin partnership with the Library of Congress with two main objectives: “increase access to publicly-held photography collections”, and “provide a way for the general public to contribute information and knowledge.”. “Since then, we have expanded into a grassroots initiative that aims to connect women of color and non-binary people of color to career and skills-building opportunities in tech.” WOCinTech (Women of Color in Tech) : #WOCinTech started in 2015 to provide women of color and non-binary people of color a safe space to connect and discuss issues in the tech industry that are important to them. Each set of content is based on a theme and is first featured on the Library’s home page.
Library of Congress (LOC) Free to Use and Reuse Sets: Features items from the LOC digital collections content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use. Wikimedia Commons: Images : Public domain and freely licensed educational media content (images, sound, and video clips).