The first issue of Sports Illustrated, August 16, 1954, showing Milwaukee Braves star Eddie Mathews at bat in Milwaukee County Stadium.
More than 23 million adults read the award-winning Sport Illustrated magazine each week. Full of color photos and detailed sports reporting, Sports Illustrated magazine provides sports fans all the inside scoop of the sports world; from baseball to football, basketball, hockey and golf, to name a few. SI's content covers season previews and reviews, player interviews and news detailing all that affects the sports world today. Sports Illustrated is also well-known for its annual "Swimsuit Issue." First published in 1954.
Steve Fine has been Director of Photography at Sports Illustrated since 1996. Starting working at SI in 1979 as an Assistant Photo Editor. In 1983, he was at the New York Times for 6 years as Sports Picture Editor at the Sunday magazine. He returned to Sports Illustrated in 1992.
In hands of Steve Fine, no one covers the Olympics like SI, he will have 8 full time photographers at the Games, 4 in the mountains and 4 in the city, delivering action, reaction, and a sense of place like no other magazine or newspaper in the world. For the Super Bowl games he'll have a two photographers near each corner of the field, one roaming each sideline, and one in the stadium's rafters for overhead views. Working in trailer outside the stadium with six other SI employees. Steve looking two pictures every second on his editing machine Sony CPD-G520 21' monitor and he leaving out of the trailer at 3am because the magazine is laid out on Monday and goes to press tuesday morning. Every second counts.
When Steve fine give a lecture, people see him as brash, funny, informative, inspired and inspiring personality.
