About Real World Image

Real World Image is a royalty-free stock photography library developed by Real World Photographs Inc, a young Vancouver-based company.

Our library contains tens of thousands of royalty-free stock images from around the world. Our name says it all. Our award-winning photos have been witness in the past to the joy, sadness and reality of the world we live in. At Real World Image, we are committed to sharing a slice of the history contained in our photos.

Our photographers have documented everything from urban wildlife in the Canadian Rockies to teenage soldiers in Palestine, magnificent monuments in London, England to dire poverty in Central America, mysterious shamans in the Amazon to street life in New York plus everything in between.

Real World Image photos and Royalty Free Images have been published in newspapers and magazines around the world including National Geographic, Discovery, Reuters and Canadian Press. Our library is constantly growing and we are adding hundreds of Royalty Free images to our database each month. We can accommodate large and small budgets and our photos are available for use in publications around the world. We are confident we can supply you with the photograph you need while also meeting your production and deadline requirements.

We would love to hear from you if you have any questions or concerns about the content on our sites! You can also contact one of our staff to discuss licensing and custom ordering. Please check out our Features section for photo essays, interviews, interesting insights and stories from people the world over. Each month we will be adding new essays.

At Real World Image we are dedicated to giving back to the community and will donate 10% of each photograph sold to a children’s charitable organization.

We are also charity and NGO friendly; please submit a quote to find out about our special rates. All students are welcome to use our photographs at no charge for projects and essays.