50 Revealing Portraits of Power - Platon

Here's a great story of how one photographer saw an amazing opportunity and took it. This past September, when nearly all the world’s leaders were in New York for a meeting of the United Nations, Platon, a staff photographer for The New Yorker, set up a tiny studio off the floor of the General Assembly. He tried to get as many of them in front of his lens as possible. Why? For this project titled Portraits of Power.

Now appearing in the Dec. 7 issue of The New Yorker, Platon give us an inside look into our world leaders - both through his photographs and his commentary. You'll hear funny and interesting short stories like how Platon thinks Ahmadinejad "giggles like a little boy" or how Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was so concerned about his portrait that he kept saying “Platon, make me look good.”

Below are just a selection of Platon's portraits. See more at The New Yorker website.

The New Yorker

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Comment by Inka Leoni on December 4, 2009 at 6:42am: Check out this photo slide show of Qaddafi Costumes which featured on the Vanity Fair website.

Hahaha!

Comment by Aurel' on December 4, 2009 at 1:36am: And of course, President Sarkozy didn't participate... -_-'
So proud to be french...

But it's a beautiful work.

Comment by Sebastian Collier on December 3, 2009 at 11:53pm: well sombody looks happy

Comment by stephanie on December 3, 2009 at 10:57pm: Yes, it confirms why I never went on politics and why I'm happy not to have been elected at any position in a government.
they have the power electors have given them.

Comment by Kristin on December 3, 2009 at 6:03pm: these portraits are amazing!

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