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• Ahmadinejad and the four-letter word Posted by Petra Marquart-Bigman

  
  The Jerusalem Post BlogCentral — Authority: 140
  "Ahmadinejad is, believe it or not, a very childlike man. [...] He giggles like a little boy. [...] theres an innocence about his eyes." Thats how The New Yorker s photographer Platon described his impression of Irans president after he photographed him and other world leaders last September at the UN. The portrait ...
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• The Eye of the Beholder: Platon’s “Portraits of Power”

  
  Venetian Red — Authority: 119
  By LIZ HAGERPlaton—Muammar Qaddafi, 2009, photograph (courtesy The New Yorker).Since the early 1990s, British photographer Platon has enjoyed unparalleled access to personalities and potentates. Nowhere is his work with the latter group more effectively displayed than in the recent photographic essay “Portraits of ...
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• World Powers Photos

  
  YLovePhoto — Authority: 123
  Pendant la session d’ouverture des Nations Unies en septembre dernier à New York, Platon, photographe pour le New Yorker et connu pour quelques portraits réussis de Poutine par exemple, a installé un studio dans l’immeuble des Nations Unis pour y photographier les grands de ce monde qui passaient là. ...
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• world leaders at the UN - an interactive set of photographs

  
  Jockey Full of Bourbon — Authority: 132
  here click through to see the photographs. seriously, one of the best things Ive seen all year http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2009/12/07/091207_audioslideshow_platon http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2009/12/07/091207_au... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
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• Platon’s portraits of world leaders – great insights for photographers

  
  Orange Photography Blog — Authority: 117
  Listen to Platon’s commentary! This guy does amazing work and I loved his shots of Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster that were in Wired last month. These portraits and how they are made are a great insight into not just photography, but the creative process. My personal favorite is this shot of Madagascar’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Portraits of power by Platon

  
  PICTURES — Authority: 131
  I’m a sucker for a nice portrait, and even more of a sucker for a good back story to that portrait.  I’ve always been a fan of Platon ’s work and the The New Yorker just published “ Portraits of Power ,” a…
  2 weeks ago

• i happened to hear this dude being interviewed on npr

  
  ravings of a semi-sane madwoman — Authority: 446
  on my way home from work the other day (it was a VERY long day. i usually leave early because i get in at about 3:30 am. i had to stay until a bit after 4 pm due to a meeting i HAD to attend. then when i left work i had to go to the grocery store. NOT for MY groceries mind you but for work. i had volunteered to ...
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• Portraits of Power

  
  Frank151 — Authority: 487
  This weeks New Yorker magazine features portraits of heads of state taken by staff photographer Platon. NPR interviewed Platon about the photos, which were shot at a UN meeting in New York earlier this year. Platon has a lot of really interesting things to say about how he got some of the worlds most powerful ...
  2 weeks ago

• Magnitsky and Toting Up the Deadly Price of Legal Defense

  
  The Oil and The Glory by Steve LeVine — Authority: 99
  The last several years have proven dangerous for Russian lawyers. Vasily Aleksanyan , lawyer for fallen oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky , was jailed for two years before being released last year, stricken with AIDS and cancer. Stanislav Markelov , a lawyer who robustly challenged a Russian military officer who raped ...
  4 weeks ago

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