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 ...

Platon took to the podium in pink corduroys and a porkpie hat. The session was a Master Class in photography, and Platon’s instructional method was to relate, with the aid of a slide show, uproarious ...

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 ...

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.

Heroes often come from the most unlikely of places. Photographer Platon, known for his unflinching close-up portraits of presidents, dictators and other powerful icons of our era, found his in the ...

Although the US officially completed its withdrawal of troops from Iraq by December 2011, the years of war and deployment to the country left a significant and lasting effect on both the US military ...