B2B media & data · Global delivery

The world's Black audiences are not a stock photo afterthought.

Morena Pixels supplies enterprises with authentic, rights-cleared media of Black people across Africa, Latin America and the diaspora — licensed from our library, shot to your brief, or annotated for your models.

Trusted by brands, agencies and AI teams worldwide

Portrait of a woman resting against a curtain, Lagos
A DJ smiling behind a mixing desk in a record-lined studio, Morro da Cruz
A couple sitting on rocks beside a waterfall, Albany
Close-up of locs threaded with cowrie shells and beads, Rio
Built for
Consumer brands Creative agencies AI & ML teams Publishers Public sector
The gap

Generic libraries fail Black audiences — and so does the work built on them.

Most stock catalogues treat 1.4 billion Africans and the wider diaspora as a single search term. The result is campaigns that don't land, products that don't convert, and models that don't recognise the people they're deployed on.

Three continents

Contributor networks across Africa, Latin America and North America, shooting in-market rather than importing a look.

Ethically sourced

Every asset consented, released and rights-cleared at the point of capture. No scraping, no grey areas.

Annotation-ready

Metadata and labelling built for downstream use — from campaign search to model training.

What we do

Three ways to work with us.

Start with the library, commission exactly what you need, or license structured data for your models. Most partners use more than one.

01 — LICENSE

Stock media library

Photo, video and audio of Black people living ordinary and extraordinary lives — searchable, licensed, ready to ship.

  • Editorial and commercial licences
  • Enterprise-wide and multi-brand terms
  • Curated collections by market and theme
  • Model and property releases on file

Best for marketing teams and agencies who need authentic imagery this week, not next quarter.

02 — COMMISSION

Custom production

When the shot doesn't exist yet, we make it. In-market crews, local casting, your creative direction.

  • Bespoke photo and video shoots
  • Local casting, crew and location scouting
  • Brand-exclusive or buyout rights
  • Campaign, product and lifestyle formats

Best for brands entering new markets who need work that reads as local.

03 — TRAIN

AI training datasets

Diverse, meticulously annotated visual data that helps models see Black faces, skin tones and contexts accurately.

  • Licensed, consent-backed source data
  • Custom annotation to your schema
  • Bias-gap collection to spec
  • Provenance documentation for audit

Best for AI and ML teams closing representation gaps and satisfying data-provenance requirements.

Why Morena Pixels

Proximity is the product.

We're not a global library with an Africa folder. We're embedded where the work is made, which changes what we can source, how fast, and how honestly.

In-market, not imported

Contributors who live in the places they shoot — Lagos, Rio, Morro da Cruz and across the diaspora. The nuance you can't brief into a foreign crew comes free.

Clean rights, documented

Consent and releases captured at source, with provenance you can hand to legal or an auditor. Increasingly the difference between a deal and a delay.

One partner, three formats

Licence today, commission next month, license data next year — under one contract and one relationship, without re-onboarding a vendor each time.

Enterprise-ready

Procurement-friendly paperwork, clear licensing terms and predictable delivery. Built to survive a legal review, not just a creative one.

How it works

From first call to delivered assets.

STEP 01

Scoping call

Thirty minutes on your markets, volumes, usage rights and timelines. We tell you which of the three routes actually fits.

STEP 02

Proposal & samples

A written scope with pricing, plus sample assets or a data sample so you're evaluating the real thing.

STEP 03

Source or shoot

We pull from the library, brief our in-market network, or run collection and annotation to your schema.

STEP 04

Deliver & document

Assets in your formats, with licences, releases and provenance records attached. Ongoing supply if you need it.

We're not filling a diversity quota in someone else's catalogue. We're building the reference library for how Black people are seen — by audiences, and by machines.
Morena Pixels

Tell us what you're building.

Bring a campaign, a market entry, or a model that keeps failing on darker skin tones. We'll tell you in one call whether we're the right partner — and what it would cost.

Questions

Before you book.

What regions do you actually cover?

Our contributor network spans West and East Africa, Brazil and the North American and European diaspora. If a market isn't covered, we'll say so on the call rather than substitute a lookalike.

How is your data licensed for AI training?

Every asset is consent-backed and rights-cleared at capture, with documentation you can pass to legal or an auditor. We don't scrape, and we don't resell data we can't trace.

Can we get exclusivity on commissioned work?

Yes. Custom production can be delivered as brand-exclusive or full buyout, or released back into the library at a lower rate. We'll price both.

What's the minimum engagement?

Library licensing starts at single-asset. Custom production and dataset work are scoped per project, and we'll be direct about whether the volume makes sense for both sides.

How quickly can you deliver?

Library assets are immediate. Commissioned shoots typically run two to six weeks depending on casting and location. Dataset collection depends on volume and annotation depth — scoped on the call.