You can absolutely search by keyword, and that's where you usually want to start. The difference lies in what you can do after that. Regular stock photo sites

You can absolutely search by keyword, and that's where you usually want to start. The difference lies in what you can do after that. Regular stock photo sites usually give you an infiniscroll on your search term, then you have to click on an image and browse through its related images (by which point you've lost the search query), then rinse & repeat until you give up basically. Here, instead of "hiding" the images (or rather: not having a way of showing them all) we literally give you the entire catalog and a way to meaningfully navigate it. By viewing only the hits you get a complete result set right at your fingertips, and they're meaningfully organized so the different image types that responded to your query will likely be grouped. By viewing the results in context you can find all the images that are similar to the hits, but didn't have your keywords attached to them.