How did the 2006 Young Photographer of the Year beat off the competition? “I think the difference between the final three was that I had done plenty of work experience,” he explained.

Christopher scored his first front page picture within weeks of starting his six-months work at The Times with a shot of Tony and Cherie Blair at the Labour Party Conference.

Christopher joined the Daily Telegraph in February 2007 and is a contract photographer for the paper. In 2007 he was nominated for Young Photographer of the Year at the Picture Editors Awards, spent four months working in Afghanistan and Iraq, and was one of the first photographers to complete a one-on-one portrait session with Gordon Brown in the first days of his premiership.