Youth in Health: Inclusive Stock Photography Collection
Giving All Youth the Chance to Be Seen
AHI has produced multiple sets of stock photography to empower youth-serving organizations with inclusive imagery of youth at no cost.
About These Photos
For youth-serving organizations, traditional stock photography can present barriers to representing a wide range of adolescents in health care settings. An analysis of leading stock photography galleries found that images showing models with darker skin tones were more likely to be kept behind paywalls (Chichester et al., 2021). With this in mind, AHI has collaborated with youth to create multiple stock photography galleries of inclusive and authentic representations of youth.
These projects were designed to amplify youth voice and perspective and put the power in their hands to capture their unique identities and experiences in the health care system.
Recommended Photo Usage Guide
This photo series was driven by AHI’s values in efforts to transform the health care landscape to optimize adolescent and young adult health and well-being. Before utilizing these photos, we ask that you read through and commit to the usage guide created by our 2024 youth participants. For any questions about these guidelines, or how to properly use or credit these photos, contact us.
Access Photo Information
- Short descriptions of each picture are available in the file name. For tags with more information about the models’ identities, click on the Comments button, which looks like a small speech bubble.
Where Photos Can Be Used
- Per the terms of the Creative Commons license, you may not create derivative work from the images or use the images for commercial purposes. Beyond these basic license stipulations, any use of this resource depends on the user to make appropriate contextual decisions.
2026 Youth with Special Health Care Needs Gallery
- With funding from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services through the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, AHI undertook a project to represent the health care experiences of young people with disabilities both visible and invisible.
Photo Credits
- Credit, “Inclusive Stock Photography Collection. Adolescent Health Initiative. Photographer Will Watson, Legacy Design & Photography. 2026”
2024 Inclusive Stock Photography Gallery
- AHI brought together a group of young people in Southeastern Michigan to ask them what they would like to see in medical stock photography. Adolescents were the visionaries and co-led the research and planning process. They designed the photoshoots, participated in the photos with complete input and consent, and provided guidance and feedback on the usage guide.
Photo Credits
- Credit, “Inclusive Stock Photography Collection. Adolescent Health Initiative. Photographer Bryan McCullough. 2024”
2019 Inclusive Stock Photography Gallery
In 2019, AHI, with support and funding from the Community Health Access Initiative of Washtenaw County (CHAI), created a set of inclusive youth-centered stock photos where authentic youth voices are featured. The photo licensing stipulations above apply to the 2019 CHAI Photo Collection.
Photo Credits
- Credit, “Youth In Health: Inclusive Stock Photography Collection. Adolescent Health Initiative. Heather Nash Photography. 2021”
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Thank You
We extend our heartfelt thanks to Anna, Chance, Leo, Ryan, and Tess for working with AHI and trusting us to share a small part of their stories for our 2026 gallery. We also would like to thank our adult models, Marlanna Landeros, MSW, and Scott Mooney, MA, for contributing to this project.
We are grateful to the Corner Health Center, where all photographs were taken, for its continued partnership with AHI and its outstanding care and support for young people in Washtenaw County.
This project was supported by funds from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services through the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
AHI would like to sincerely thank the young folks who led the 2024 inclusive photography project: Angelica, Cheick, Cheyenne, Hunter, Moriym, and Zi, with a special thanks to our youth coordinator, Maeve Lucas. Thank you to our adult models, Cornelius Jamison, MD; Marlanna Landeros, MSW; and Lauren Vasquez, MS, CHES. We truly appreciate Jeff King and the staff of the Pediatrics clinic at East Ann Arbor Health and Geriatrics Center for letting AHI use their beautiful space. We are also indebted to Michigan Medicine photographer Bryan McCullough and marketing manager Callie West. Many, many thanks to the Michigan Medicine Office of Health Equity and Inclusion for awarding AHI the Phyllis M. Blackman Innovation Grant without which this project would not have been possible!
Many thanks to the youth who worked on our 2019 project: Evie, Catrina, Tiasia, Dakari, Amelia, Riss, Sky, Jeren, Samantha, Taylor, Juwan, Tavon, Kevon, and Kenyae. Thank you to Dr. Bernie Stoody, Jess Driver Williams, and Whitney Rose, MSW, for being the photo series’ featured providers. Thank you to the Washtenaw County Health Department for providing the space and site coordination for the photoshoot, and gratitude to Heather Nash at Heather Nash Photography. And finally, our utmost gratitude to the Community Health Access Initiative of Washtenaw County (CHAI) for providing funding and support to make this project happen.
