Our Story
International Sports Images is an independent sports photography and visual news agency providing comprehensive editorial coverage, assignment photography and archive licensing for teams, universities, governing bodies, media organizations and commercial clients.
Founded in 1992 with deep roots in American soccer, ISI has grown into a broader sports agency supported by an experienced nationwide network of photographers and editors. Today, we cover collegiate and professional sports throughout the United States, combining exceptional photography with fast delivery, accurate metadata and highly personal client service.
ISI serves as the photography agency for Stanford Athletics and provides team photography for the San Jose Earthquakes and Bay FC. Our photographers have also covered more than 20 NCAA bowl games, numerous NCAA championships and many of the most significant events in international soccer.
Soccer remains an important part of our identity. ISI served as the photography agency for U.S. Soccer through 2026 and has covered nine FIFA Men’s World Cups, seven FIFA Women’s World Cups and seven Olympic Games. Our complete sports archive contains more than one million images, including well over half a million soccer photographs spanning U.S. Soccer, MLS and international competition.
The collection chronicles the modern growth of soccer in the United States—from the 1994 FIFA World Cup and the first MLS match to the WUSA, WPS, NWSL and today’s professional game. It is both a visual history of the sport and an actively licensed editorial resource for clients around the world.
Founded by J. Brett Whitesell and acquired by John Todd and Annette Shelby in 2004, ISI was an early leader in digital sports photography, creating the first soccer-specific online image database. That same independent spirit continues to guide us today as we expand our coverage, strengthen our technology and help clients tell their stories through distinctive, best-in-class sports imagery.
Management Team
John Todd
Principal & Creative Director
A professional photographer for over twenty-five years, John has a wide range of expertise in many forms of photography including sports, advertising promotion, corporate, and fine art. He owns and manages International Sports Images (ISI Photos), the official photography supplier to U.S. Soccer, Stanford Athletics, and Major League Soccer’s San Jose Earthquakes.
John has photographed the Olympic Games, FIFA World Cups, College Football National Championships and the Mavericks Surf Competition, among others. His work has appeared in Time Magazine, USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Sports Illustrated and ESPN the Magazine, and has been displayed at the Smithsonian Institution as part of a women-in-sports photography exhibit. John also teaches regularly in Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program. He graduated from St. Lawrence University with a B.A. in History.
Annette Shelby
Managing Director
Annette has worked with ISI Photos in a variety of marketing, financial and management positions for over 18 years.
Previously, she was associate director of Stanford University's Continuing Studies Program, which offers business and liberal arts courses to adult students. She has also worked in both marketing and production capacities for many sporting ventures and events including World Cup, Stanford Athletics, and the San Jose Arena. She obtained her B.S. and M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Seth has worked in a variety of photography roles including acquisition, sourcing, curation, content management, licensing, and client relations. In his most recent position as the Associate Director of Photographic Collections for the Academy of Motion Pictures he led a team that curated photography for Academy events and exhibitions, and for the inaugural opening of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in 2021.
As Managing Photography Editor at Corbis Images he developed and led the action sports division and had the privilege of organizing coverage at eight Olympic Games, four FIFA World Cups, and all major international soccer leagues. His client-facing roles have included pitching and executing assignments to major corporate brands and worldwide media clients including Accenture, Canon, Comcast Universal, ESPN, Nike, Rolex, Sports Illustrated, Toyota, and Viacom.
Seth is now the International Sports Images Director of Sport and leads global sports assignments as ISI Photos expands their coverage around the world.
Seth Greenberg
Director of Sport
ISI Photos Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Policy
ISI Photos is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
Our human capital is the most valuable asset we have. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of not only our culture, but our reputation and company’s achievement as well.
We embrace and encourage our workforce’s differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.
ISI Photos diversity initiatives are applicable—but not limited—to our practices and policies on recruitment and selection; compensation and benefits; professional development and training; promotions; transfers; social and recreational programs; layoffs; terminations; and the ongoing development of a work environment built on the premise of gender and diversity equity that encourages and enforces:
Respectful communication and cooperation between all employees and contributors.
Teamwork and workforce participation, permitting the representation of all groups and perspectives.
Work/life balance through flexible work schedules to accommodate varying needs.
Workforce contributions to the communities we serve to promote a greater understanding and respect for the diversity.
All employees of ISI Photos have a responsibility to treat others with dignity and respect at all times. All are expected to exhibit conduct that reflects inclusion during work, at work functions on or off the work site, and at all other company-sponsored and participative events.
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
Robin Alam; Jose Argueta; Bill Barrett; Daniel Bartel; Greg Bartram; David Bernal; Bryan Byerly; Erin Chang; John Dorton; Bob Drebin; David Elkinson; Scott Gould; Maciek Gudrymowicz; Karen Hickey; Michael Janosz; Andrew Katsampes; Mike Lawrence; Fernando Leon; Steven Limentani; John Lozano; Perry McIntyre; Andrew Mead; Roy Miller; Michael Miller; Craig Mitchelldyer; Jeremy Olson; Lyndsay Radnedge; Mike Rasay; Jeremy Reper; Albert Sermeno; Howard Smith; Brad Smith; Mark Thorstenson; John Todd; Doug Zimmerman; Joe Robbins; Richard Rodriguez; Adam Hagy; Elizabeth Kreutz; Mark Smith; Carl Kafka; Steve Dinberg; John Wilkinson; Shaun Clark; Ben Nichols; Melinda Meijer; Eston Parker; Aric Becker; Amy Kontras; Jenny Chuang; Robert Mora; Lee Klafczynski; Stephen Nadler; Trevor Ruszkowski; Al Chang; Carlos Gonzalez; Jose Moreno; Fred & Susan Mullane; James Patrick Cooper; Thien-An Truong; Chris Putman; Michael Pimentel; AJ Johnson; Alex Ho; Roger Wimmer; Peter van den Berg; David Hickey; Eric Brown Jr.; Emma Ottosen; Liza Rosales; Stephen Spillman; Trinity Machan; John McGloughlin; Andrew Clark; Cory Knowlton; Seth Greenberg; Andrea Vilchez; Talia Sprague; John Matthew Harrison; Brandon Vallance; Elysia Su; Gregory Ng; Joe Buvid; Supriya Lamiye; Ray Bahner; Jack Goras; Fausto Ibarra; Christopher Morris; Edwin So; Blake Dahlin; Jordan Teller; Harry Figiel; Eakin Howard; Jonathan Goodman; Stephen Brashear; Don Feria; Celso Onofre; Tony Quinn; Wilf Thorne; Casey Valentine; Andrew Villa; Brooks Parkenridge; Tracy Allen; Trent Davol.
Services
Stock Library
ISI Photos (International Sports Images, Inc.) specializes in high-end sports photography and offers a robust, searchable database with exclusive image content for commercial and editorial licensing.
ISI PHOTOS APP
The ISI Photos mobile app is available in the iTunes store and is compatible with iOS devices. Approved account holders can easily search and download images onto their mobile devices for rapid social media and other digital distribution.
AccountS
Accounts are set up for commercial and editorial users only. Images may be available for personal use purchase if the customer is in the image. Please email for more information.
Image Specifications
All high-resolution digital images are at least 10" longest side and 300 DPI. Larger sizes may be available by request. Images are available for immediate download to approved commercial and editorial account holders.
clients
- Anheuser-Busch
- AT&T
- Century 21
- Coca-Cola
- Continental Tire
- Hisense USA
- KT Tape
- National Women’s Soccer League
- Nike
- Johnson & Johnson
- San Jose Earthquakes
- Stanford University
- TAG Heuer
- Thorne
- U.S. Soccer
published in
- ESPN Magazine
- FIFA Magazine
- Four Four Two
- MLSsoccer.com
- New York Times
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Soccer America
- Sports Illustrated
- Time Magazine
- Washington Post
- USA Today
