Pexels FREE Images : empowering creators

First Stop Design • 28 June 2020

Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Pexels license. All photos are nicely tagged, searchable and also easy to discover through their discover pages.

They have hundreds of thousands of free stock photos and every day new high resolution photos will be added. All photos are hand-picked from photos uploaded by Pexels users or sourced from free image websites. They make sure all published pictures are high-quality and licensed under the Pexels license.

Pexels Team & Mission 
Pexels is run by Bruno Joseph, Ingo Joseph and Daniel Frese. Bruno and Ingo co-founded Pexels together in 2014 and Daniel joined them in 2015. Read more here >

They help millions of designers, writers, artists, programmers and other creators to get access to beautiful photos that they can use freely which empowers them to create amazing products, designs, stories, websites, apps, art and other work. Pexels call it, "Empowering Creators"

Visit the website here >

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