Christopher Shipman is an award-winning, Emmy-nominated photojournalist. Christopher is an alumni of Augusta University where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Communication. Recently, He graduated with a Master of Arts in New Media Journalism at Full Sail University. Christopher’s passions include producing, conducting, and collaborating on short and long-form storytelling content and capturing still images for the web or broadcast. His start as a news photographer took off at a local news station back in Augusta. Currently, he works for a news station in Raleigh, North Carolina as a news photographer in a top 20 market.

How Christopher became a news photographer started at a young age when he got into sketching and drawing. Then, the sketches evolved to thoughts on paper. Pen to pad gradually grew to his fascination for cinema. From cinema it peeked his interest into picking up a camera and seeing what he can create with it. That led to street photography and getting into the creative space to not only write his own screen scripts but produce film work. This later, granted him the opportunity to work alongside Augusta University’s The Agency as a lighting specialist for an LA-based indie rock band “LUNA” music video called “Friends.”

Before becoming a news photographer, Christopher got his first field experience as a journalism intern for a nonprofit organization, The Borgen Project, where he written and published articles regarding world hunger. He later became an associate producer at a local news station in Augusta, Georgia (WJBF News Channel 6) after obtaining his Master of Arts in New Media Journalism in 2019. In 2020, the pandemic placed Christopher in fight-or-flight after losing a full time job as a night auditor at a local hotel in the area.

Christopher rose to the occasion of every opportunity to show case his value by documenting the ongoing impacts of what the pandemic had on people in the community as well as documenting the civil unrest protests that were sparked by the death of George Floyd and many others by the hands of police brutality. Christopher’s passion in covering the protests that were happening in his community led him to travel to Washington, D.C. to cover the Million Man March in August of 2020.

A year later, those opportunities landed him a full-time position as a news photographer at WJBF in 2021. This opportunity led him to aid in some prestigious sporting events like The ‘20 Masters Tournament. Once Christopher took his career to the Midwest (Kansas City, Missouri) he took on the opportunity to cover The Liberty Bowl, NASCAR, NFL Draft, and Kansas City Chiefs coverage.

In year 2023, Christopher was awarded first place in The Missouri Broadcaster Association (MBA) for his efforts in the Sports Feature category on his coverage over a Ukrainian kid makes waves as a swimmer for a local Kansas City, Missouri high school after being moved to Missouri due to the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War. Also, he earned an EMMY nomination at the Mid-America EMMYS for the Crime/Justice - News category for his efforts on the ‘Lawsuit Alleges Unlawful Traffic Stops’ which is the coverage over the Kansas Two Step.