About
The New Charleston Library
A curated stock library of Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry — built by photographers who live here.
Charlestock exists because Charleston has a visual identity that doesn't generalize — and the national stock libraries have never been built to serve a single market deeply. They serve every market thinly.
The result is what most local marketers know: when you search "Charleston" on a big stock site, half the images are actually Savannah, or Hilton Head, or generic Lowcountry that could be anywhere. The handful of true Charleston images are usually overused, sometimes mislabeled, and almost always licensed under terms that make a brokerage attorney nervous.
Charlestock fixes that. Every image is shot, reviewed, and tagged by photographers who live and work in the region. Every license certificate is clean. The catalog is small on purpose — we'd rather have 500 unmistakably-Charleston images than 50,000 close-enough ones.
How it works
Curated, licensed, ready to use.
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Browse & license
Search by location, subject, or mood. Pick the license tier that matches how you'll use the image. Single images, exclusive licenses, and Community Amenity Packs are all available.
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Download instantly
Files and a license certificate (PDF) are delivered the moment checkout completes. Re-download anytime from your account — downloads never expire.
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Use with confidence
Plain-language licensing, no surprise rights-of-publicity issues, and a real human at library@charlestock.com if anything comes up.
Every order ships with this
What a license certificate looks like
Every Charlestock order includes a PDF license certificate — the authoritative document for the rights you hold. Here's what it contains:
CHARLESTOCK
The new Charleston library
| Certificate number | CHST-20260604-SAMPLE |
| Issued | June 4, 2026 |
| Licensed to | Sample Realtor — Charleston, SC |
Licensed items
The Battery at golden hour
Photo: Josh Corrigan · Charleston, SC
Standard tierAllowed: digital use plus limited print — collateral, brochures, signage up to defined scale.
Not allowed: resale or re-licensing as stock, AI/ML training input, NFT/tokenization, removal of attribution.
Issued by Charlestock, a division of Ellis Creek LLC. Charleston, South Carolina.
Questions: library@charlestock.com
A simplified visual preview. Your actual certificate is delivered as a high-quality PDF.
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A unique certificate number (format
CHST-YYYYMMDD-XXXXX) for record-keeping with your accounting or legal team. - ✓ The license tier purchased — Web, Standard, Extended, Editorial+Commercial, or Exclusive — named explicitly per item.
- ✓ Plain-language usage rights for the tier, in two sections: what's allowed and what isn't.
- ✓ Photographer attribution — the credit line you can use if you choose to acknowledge the photographer.
- ✓ Editorial-only flags — if a specific image is restricted to editorial use, that restriction is named on its line item.
- ✓ Contact for questions — a real human address you can email if anything comes up later.
Full plain-language summary on the License Agreement page.
The founder
Josh Corrigan
Charlestock was founded by Josh Corrigan, a Charleston-based architectural and editorial photographer. Josh runs Ellis Creek Photography (commercial and architectural work for designers, developers, and luxury residential clients) and Coastal Real Estate Photography (real estate and rental media for the Charleston brokerage community). Charlestock is the third project, and the one most personally interesting: a place where the work of multiple Charleston photographers can be properly licensed by the marketing and design community without anyone — buyer or photographer — having to navigate the strange-and-getting-stranger world of national stock licensing.
If you're a Charleston-area photographer who'd like to contribute, drop a note to library@charlestock.com with a portfolio link. The catalog will grow with the community.
Get in touch
Questions, commissions, or just hello.
Custom Charleston commissions, licensing questions, contributor inquiries, partnership ideas — we read everything that lands at library@charlestock.com.