About Us

Icon Sports Media, Inc. (Icon SMI) was founded in 1999 by sports photography veterans with one unique vision: to meld the best in sports imagery with the best in digital technology by uniting the independent image media under one multi-functional, web-based infrastructure. Since then, Icon SMI has grown to become a leading digital sports press photography agency and wire service gathering sports imagery from a worldwide network of foreign press agencies and leading sports photographers to deliver timely international event coverage.

Icon SMI captures unique digital imagery of the defining moments and leading athletes from today’s professional, college and amateur sport. Our growing collection of 500,000 digital images online is augmented by a collection of 3 million historical images and includes photography taken by some of sports photography’s finest professional photographers.