In early June, another photo content bank, Pixabay, took a similar step. The messages they publish for users from Russia are exactly the same. This is because in 2019 both sites were purchased by the Australian service for designer Canva.

what is known

• Pixels is not currently available in Russia, but still opens in Belarus. It is unknown whether the company plans to extend sanctions to this country.
• For Russians who appear when trying to access the service’s site, type: “We strongly condemn Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine” [досі] continues. In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Pixels is no longer available in Russia. To read accurate information about what is happening in Ukraine, visit the UN website. “
• According to its own data, Pixels image and video bank is populated by photographers from 170 countries, the site has 15 million visits per month. However, it is not known how many of them came from Russia.

Analogs are still on the market, such as Unsplash, which offers a huge library of free photos, and Freepik, where you can also find vectors, icons, fonts and psd files.

It will be remembered that previously the world’s largest freelance exchange Upwork and a service for Canva designers closed access for Russians. The first allows IT professionals, marketers, web designers, and other digital professionals to find orders and fulfill them for money. It is estimated that more than 100,000 Russians lost their jobs as a result. The latter is an image designer actively used for their work by designers, marketers, journalists, bloggers and others. 1.4 million invaders lost access.