The Hero Experience
Join the Pexels Heroes community. Boost your network, your reach, your skills, your opportunities, and the joy that your passion brings you.
Tom Fisk
49.9K followers
Lisa Fotios
52.4K followers
eberhard grossgasteiger
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Orest Sv
724 followers
Mwabonje Ringa
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Wendy Wei
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Engin Akyurt
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Ricky Esquivel
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The Hero Experience
Pexels Heroes is an invite-only community made up of the best and most trusted photographers on the platform.
It’s fun and rewarding
"The coolest part of being a Pexels Hero is the sense of community. Meeting so many talented and passionate photographers has inspired me to break out and try new things. Equally as awesome is having the opportunity to meet and communicate directly with the Pexels staff. Being a Hero has changed my photographic life in some incredible ways."
Brett Sayles
Getting started is easy
Contribute photos to the community
Choose the photos you want to share and upload them to Pexels.
Submit your photosGet featured
The best photos are chosen and published by our curation team.
Get invited to join Heroes
Our curation team invites photographers with high quality, curated images to join the community.
Being a Hero has its perks
Special profile badge
Pexels swag via Snail Mail
Exclusive perks via our partners
Meeting fellow members
Priority access to product updates
Faster photo reviews
Get notified when one of your photos is used on a big website
Sharing is caring
Contributing your photography to Pexels means helping creative people all over the world get inspired—from entrepreneurs to visual artists to photographers like you.
It’s motivating
"Millions of views, several donations and a lot of positive feedback from the community. Besides that Pexels knows how to treat and thank their photographers. Nothing but love for Pexels!"
Ylanite Koppens
320K
Talented photographers
30M
Global audience
It’s inspiring
"I have more than 13,000,000 views and 55,000 downloads of my photos on Pexels. I'm not a pro photographer, just an amateur, but seeing these stats... It just inspires me more than anything."
It’s meaningful
"Finding your photos in Forbes, HBR, Mashable, and even in the wild on billboards is awesome. Receiving donations and thank-yous from all over the world is heart-warming. It makes the Pexels community stand out!"
Tim Gouw
