{"id":30016,"date":"2018-05-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fujifilmnxtc.wpenginepowered.com\/x-photographers\/steve-christo\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:00:00","slug":"steve-christo","status":"publish","type":"photographer","link":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/ro-ro\/photographers\/steve-christo\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Christo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xphotographerspost__detail_data_motto_texts motto_texts\">\n<p>Steve studied photography at the Sydney Technical College and started work at the Sydney Morning Herald in 1987, shooting news, sports and features. He moved solely to sports in 1994, covering the Olympic Games in Sydney, Athens, Beijing and most recently London. Two Commonwealth Games, The FIFA World Cup in South Africa and many other events, both in Australia and internationally. Some of his awards include a 1993 IOC Gold Lens for black-and-white singles, four POYi Awards of Excellence, a 2008 Sony International Photography Award&#8217;s second prize in Sports and in 2007 and 2011 a World Press Photo third prize for Sports Action stories and single picture. He was named 2009 Sports Photographer of the Year by Panpa Awards.<br \/>\nAs of 2012 after 25 years at the Sydney Morning Herald he decided to start freelancing. In the last 4 years he has worked for&#8230;.. Destinations NSW, Sydney FC, Wanderers FC, ABC, AP, Reuters, University of NSW, Jaguar, Audi Australia, Commonwealth Bank, NSW Cricket, Swimming Australia, World Sports Group, Asia Cup Federation, Red Bull and contribute to Corbis International Photo agency.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">STATISTICS<\/span><br \/>\nH.S.C 1984<br \/>\nCertificate in Photography Sydney TAFE 1989<br \/>\nSydney Morning Herald since 1987 -2012<br \/>\nShooting sport full time by 1994.<br \/>\nOlympic Games at Sydney2000 and Athens2004 and Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Commonwealth Games at Kuala Lumpur1998 and Melbourne2006<br \/>\nWorld cup swimming championships in Yokahama<br \/>\nWorld Athletic championships in Osaka.<br \/>\nThe World Cup Soccer in South Africa 2010<br \/>\nSeveral Grand Prix, a Rugby World Cup and NRL and AFL grand finals and a multitude of other sports.<br \/>\nMy work used in the curriculum for the HSC English paper in 2007 Art and About 2005, 2006, 2010<br \/>\nInternational Awards<br \/>\nIOC Best of Sports Photography 1993<br \/>\nGold Lense Single Black and White<br \/>\nPictures Of The Year International<br \/>\nAwards Of Excellence Portfolio 1998, 2006, 2012<br \/>\nFeature Sports Picture 1998<br \/>\nNational Press Photographers Association of America International Second Sports Photojournalist of the Year 2006<br \/>\nWorld Press Photo<br \/>\nThird in Sports Action Stories 2007,<br \/>\nSingle image 2011<br \/>\nSony International Photography Awards 2008<br \/>\n2nd in Sport<br \/>\nPanpa Awards<br \/>\nSports Photographer of the year 2009<br \/>\nHighly Commended 2011\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30017,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","category":[1006,1055,13039,3211,13040,3309,5808,8601,7670,13041,3358],"post_tag":[],"fujifilm_title":[12509],"class_list":["post-30016","photographer","type-photographer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cameras","category-lenses","category-mirrorless-digital-cameras","category-x-series-mirrorless","category-prime-lenses","category-x-mount-prime","category-x-t2","category-xf100-400mmf4-5-5-6-r-lm-ois-wr","category-xf16mmf1-4-r-wr","category-zoom-lenses","category-zoom","title-other"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 01:38:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/ro-ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photographer\/30016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/ro-ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photographer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/ro-ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/photographer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/ro-ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/ro-ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/ro-ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/ro-ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category?post=30016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/ro-ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_tag?post=30016"},{"taxonomy":"title","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/ro-ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fujifilm_title?post=30016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}