Stock Photo Trends

The fickle world of design and photography has plenty of shot lived fads, but one of the major trends over the last few years is the growth of "non stocky" stock photos. You might have heard rumours of "the death to stock photos" :)

There is plenty of need for simple, colorful and easily recognized "stocky" images that can be used in any kind of design; but even the big microstock agencies are taking less about generic and more about "authentic" "natural" "realistic" "unstaged" (you would not be believe the amount of staging that goes into some "unstaged" photos!

Here is a collection of free stock photos from members of the stockarch library that reflect this growing trend: