{The Body Liberation Guide} 🎨 When your art gets turned into art
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{The Body Liberation Guide} 🎨 When your art gets turned into art

Hi friend, I am freaking delighted to share this new Body Liberation Stock collection with you: a set of original, exclusive images from artist Kat Max. Kat (who you may have known in the past as Kathryn Hack) is one of the fat-positive artists whose work I admire most, and it’s such an honor to collaborate with her….

An illustration of a fat white person with orange hair riding a skateboard and blowing a chewing gum bubble.

{Body Liberation Stock} Featured contributor: Tatiana Gill

Meet Tatiana Gill, one of Body Liberation Stock’s contributors! More about Tatiana: Tatiana Gill is a Seattle based cartoonist who uses her art to show resilience and vulnerability, and representing diversity that goes unseen in most media. Themes include self love, health care, and feminism. Tatiana has created dozens of self-published comic books, teaches comics,…

A painting of a young feminine person with bright orange skin and a tattoo of a mermaid reading. The person is lying down and reading as well.
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Fat-positive photograph to painting by Barbara Gadon

It’s always a delight when other artists use my work as inspiration! This lovely piece she named “Mermaid Reading” is by artist Barbara Gadon, and you can find more of her work at https://artbybgvisuals.com. The second image is my original photograph (used with permission, which I prefer). My photograph is available as a stock photo…

Featured Body Liberation Stock contributor: Kathleen Marshall

Featured Body Liberation Stock contributor: Kathleen Marshall

Meet Kathleen Marshall, one of Body Liberation Stock’s contributors! Here’s how Kathleen describes herself: Kathleen Marshall is a San Francisco Bay Area native, transplanted to Reno, Nevada where she lives with her husband, dogs, parrot and chickens. A former theatrical costumer, she currently teaches middle school. She loves fairy tale illustration of the Golden Era…

Featured Body Liberation Stock Contributor: Tatiana Gill

Featured Body Liberation Stock Contributor: Tatiana Gill

Meet Tatiana, one of Body Liberation Stock’s contributors! Here’s how Tatiana describes herself: “Tatiana Gill is a Seattle based cartoonist who uses her art to show resilience and vulnerability, and representing diversity that goes unseen in most media. Themes include self love, health care, and feminism. Tatiana has created dozens of self-published comic books, teaches…

12 Stock Photos of People Practicing Intuitive Eating & Food Neutrality

12 Stock Photos of People Practicing Intuitive Eating & Food Neutrality

As a photographer who produces stock images and is involved in the world of Health at Every Size® and intuitive eating, I do a lot of thinking about people, food, and the relationships between the two. Plenty of my work rebels against diet culture by pairing women in large bodies with “sinful” foods like cupcakes…

New: Plus-Size Hiker Collection at Body Liberation Stock

New: Plus-Size Hiker Collection at Body Liberation Stock

In these 14 new images, a fat white woman (me!) hikes up a gravel path in the mountains on a sunny autumn afternoon. They were taken in Mount Baker National Forest. Traditional stock photography sites offer images that almost always feature young, thin, white, able-bodied people. Does that really reflect the dizzyingly diverse array of…

Featured Body Liberation Stock contributor: Norm Bowler

Featured Body Liberation Stock contributor: Norm Bowler

Meet Norm, one of Body Liberation Stock’s contributors! Here’s how Norm describes himself: “I’m a husband of one, father of four, and a software professional by day. In my free time I am a photographer, singer-songwriter, and music producer. I specialize in taking naturalistic portraits. I look for the magic in front of the lens,…

Love this photo? You could be using it in your marketing!

Love this photo? You could be using it in your marketing!

“The images we see—or don’t see—matter. They tell us what’s possible.” » Emily Nagoski The more we see unrealistic, idealized people in advertising and the media, the more it makes us doubt the worth of our own bodies, skin colors, looks and orientations. Thankfully, the world is changing. Customers are demanding better from the companies…

Featured Body Liberation Stock contributor: Aubrey Allison

Featured Body Liberation Stock contributor: Aubrey Allison

Meet Aubrey, one of Body Liberation Stock’s contributors! Here’s how Aubrey describes herself: “I’m Aubrey or Brey (she/her). I’m a fat woman who lives in Seattle with my spouse, roomie/bff, and two kitties. At just about any given time, you can find me drawing, crafting, watching/listening to true crime, eating all the gummy worms, and…

{Body Liberation Stock} NEW COLLECTION: Sleep Apnea & CPAP Patient

{Body Liberation Stock} NEW COLLECTION: Sleep Apnea & CPAP Patient

One of the first Body Liberation Stock image collections representing fat bodies in healthcare context is the new Sleep Apnea & CPAP Patient collection. According to the Mayo Clinic, “Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy is a common treatment for obstructive sleep apnea. A CPAP machine uses a hose connected to a mask or nosepiece…

Body Liberation Stock is accepting contributors!

Body Liberation Stock is accepting contributors!

Body Liberation Stock is accepting contributors! Spread some love, make the world a better place — and get paid to do it. Unlike most of the mainstream stock image sites, we’ve got motives beyond profit margin, which means caring about contributors. We want you to make a living wage too, so you get a stunning…

Body Liberation Stock: Changing the world with body-positive stock photos

Body Liberation Stock: Changing the world with body-positive stock photos

I started Body Liberation Stock in 2017, and I’m currently the only person in the world producing positive stock photos of people in very large bodies. Body Liberation stock offers images for commercial use, including: » Social media» Websites» Blog posts» Brochures» Apps» Endless other uses You’ll find images focused on inclusion and diversity in…

Lindley & Body Liberation Photos
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Lindley & Body Liberation Photos

I used to think that I was too fat to be a professional photographer. I thought that no one would hire a fat photographer, that they’d laugh at the very thought. From the safety of my corporate job, I watched people in thin bodies make other thin people’s dream images come true. In 2014, my…