How photographer Platon gets up close to capture a person's truth
Photographer Platon has captured portraits of the most famous and powerful people on the planet: Bill Clinton, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and many others. How does he break down the personal...
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PLATON: A portrait, to me, is about closeness, it's about truth.Sometimes, someone's fame, power and success actually becomes a prison, and the personknows better than anybody that they can't live up to that ideal.My job is not to be disrespectful, but to be authentic, to say, who are you really?The first American president I ever came into contact with was Bill Clinton.The magazine said, we want a nice dignified head shot.I thought to myself, look, I'm never going to be in front of another president ever againanyway, so I might as well do the picture that I was born to do.I shouted out, "Mr. President, will you show me the love?"And there was silence in the room.I think his chief of staff leaned forward and said, &am...
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PLATON: A portrait, to me, is about closeness, it's about truth.Sometimes, someone's fame, power and success actually becomes a prison, and the personknows better than anybody that they can't live up to that ideal.My job is not to be disrespectful, but to be authentic, to say, who are you really?The first American president I ever came into contact with was Bill Clinton.The magazine said, we want a nice dignified head shot.I thought to myself, look, I'm never going to be in front of another president ever againanyway, so I might as well do the picture that I was born to do.I shouted out, "Mr. President, will you show me the love?"And there was silence in the room.I think his chief of staff leaned forward and said, &am...
