Platon proudly calls himself a cultural provocateur. While other mononymous artists like Bono or Madonna use music to provoke, Platon communicates through photography. Photographs, he argues, are only ...

Few photographers have shaped modern portraiture quite like Platon. Over the years, he’s photographed everyone from Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin to Adele and David Bowie; always with the same ...

Vladimir Putin, Muammar Gaddafi, Mark Zuckerberg. Presidents and Hollywood stars; political dissidents, abuse survivors and immigrants. One thing unites them all: a slightly scuffed, white wooden box.

Platon is famous for getting big personalities to open up in front of his camera. He's worked with many of the world's most eccentric leaders — Putin, Gaddafi, Ahmadinejad — but always found a way to ...

The photographer Platon has taken high-contrast close-ups of some of the most recognizable faces in the world – the Obamas, Vladimir Putin, Serena Williams, Elon Musk, Harry Styles – with many sitting ...

The photographer Platon is known for his portraits of powerful leaders such as Vladimir Putin and world-changing figures such as the Little Rock Nine. But it was a much more personal project that ...

Three inches from one of the most notorious dictators in history, the photographer Platon focused tightly on the black eyes glaring at him through his lens. “There was nothing in them,” he said. “It’s ...