Our Story
Since 1992 International Sports Images, Inc had been at the forefront of Soccer in the United States, covering 8 Men’s Fifa World Cups, 7 Fifa Women’s World Cups and 7 Olympics. The archive holds over 500,000 soccer images and chronicles the growth of soccer in the United States during the modern era, starting with the 1994 World Cup, the very first MLS game in San Jose, the WUSA, The WPS, and the NWSL.
Started by J.Brett Whitesell in 1992, ISI has operated as an independent quality oriented photo agency. Bought by John Todd and Annette Shelby in 2004, ISI entered the digital age with the first ever soccer specific online image database, providing clients with easy access to the archive.
Acting as the team photographer to the US Soccer Federation, our photographers are focused on the National Teams and provide in depth coverage for the USA. Our focus continues to be soccer centric and our passion for covering the sport is unparalleled.
In addition to U.S. Soccer, ISI also provides team photographer duties to Stanford Athletics, the San Jose Earthquakes and has covered over 20 NCAA Bowl games, and numerous NCAA Championships.
Our core values are to provide clients with the highest quality service and best in class imagery on a personal level.
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
Dan Bartel
Greg Bartram
Dave Bernal
Tim Bouwer
Stephen Brashear
John Dorton
Bob Drebin
Don Feria
Jane Gershovich
Maciek Gudrymowicz
Mike Janosz
Howard Smith
Wilf Thorne
Mark Thorstenson
Casey Valentine
Andrew Katsampes
Mike Lawrence
Casey Brooke Lawson
Steve Limentani
Perry McIntyre
Andy Mead
Roy Miller
Craig Mitchelldyer
Jeremy Olson
Celso Onofre
Tony Quinn
Lyndsay Radnedge
Mike Rasay
Jeremy Reper
Al Sermeno
Brad Smith
Andrew Villa
Doug Zimmerman
Rob Ericson
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
