Request Yale Photos and Videos

The Office of Public Affairs & Communications maintains an archive of curated images and video of the Yale campus, its programs, and its community. Yale University retains the rights for the non-commercial distribution and use of the media in these collections.

Linked content can be downloaded free of charge for use in official and affiliated university publications and websites. News organizations and others may also use these photos and videos for editorial, non-commercial purposes, provided they are not altered in any way (other than for formatting or editing for length), and that such use in the final publication does not state or imply the approval or endorsement of Yale University (or any of its departments, schools, or affiliates) of the news organization, or any other organization, person, product, or service.

The display of photos must credit Yale University and the name of the photographer listed in the detailed view of each photo, when available. Video material must be attributed to the originating Yale office as credited in the downloaded clip.

Any use beyond that described above requires the explicit permission of Yale University.

If you need content that isn’t available in the collection, please email opac@yale.edu so we can search the private database that contains additional material.

Use of Yale media will not be approved for any purpose which implies support or endorsement for any third-party product, platform, or service.

All media provided by Yale University is subject to its Terms of Use. Please see Terms of Use  (above) for more information.

Approval for use is restricted to the use-case outlined in the Media Request form.  Any other use is subject to additional approval.

Requests to license Yale trademarks must be directed to Yale Trademark Licensing.

Requests to capture media on site at Yale must be directed to Filming at Yale, where you’ll find the filming application and other important policies and guidance.

Images
Through the Campus Photos website, Yale provides a curated selection of images, which can be freely downloaded for non-commercial use.

Other imagery may be available but is subject to the submission of a Media Request form below.

Video
Yale University maintains an archive of Yale-related video, which may be distributed for approved use by submitting a Media Request form.

Yale does not distribute un-edited video content.

Please note: Submission of draft copy, scripts, mockups, rough edits, etc., may be required to obtain permission to use Yale media.

Submit a Media Request

More images of Yale’s campus, people, and events can be found on the university’s official Instagram account, which may be supplied by request. The rights and restrictions governing usage of these images are outlined in Yale’s Terms of Use above.

In addition, several Yale University departments and programs have digital image collections that are available for use by the public and/or the campus community — some free, some for a fee. The following are just some of those collections. Be sure to consult the Terms of Use for each collection:

LUX: Yale Collections Discovery
This comprehensive digital platform enables users to search across Yale’s museums, archives, and library collections for works of art, historic archives, scientific specimens, and other cultural heritage items held at the university. Note that not all content through LUX is unrestricted. Consult the “Can I Reuse It?” panel in the Object or Work record—if the item is in the public domain, not subject to any other restrictions, and digitized by Yale, the answer is generally “yes.” However, note that images and works accessible in LUX may be protected by copyright, privacy rights, or other restrictions, or they may require further research. Visit the LUX site for additional guidance around rights and usage.

Yale University Library Digital Collections
The cross-collection search includes over 600,000 images in selected Library Digital Collections. Some of the collections are only available on campus or via VPN. The site also includes a suite of teaching and learning tools, such as creating and annotating a gallery/group of images, available for patrons with a Yale NetID.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Digital Library
Search 250,000 digitized images of photographs, textual documents, illuminated manuscripts, maps, works of art, and books from the Beinecke’s collections.

Yale University Art Gallery
This image database includes more than 80,000 objects from the gallery’s comprehensive collections of world art, from antiquity to the present.

Yale Center for British Art
The center’s online catalog currently represents over 100,000 records from the center’s collections.

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
The Yale Peabody Museum is home to one of the oldest and largest university natural history collections in the world. The search portal allows you to explore millions of specimens across ten collecting divisions, putting the history of life on this planet at your fingertips.

Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
Download images of the collection’s holdings of musical instruments, which range in age from antiquity to the present, and come from countries throughout the world.