Platon’s Unflinching Photos of War and Its Cost - Feature Shoot

Platon is an internationally-esteemed photographer. Widely known - especially for his intensely intimate portraits of world leaders - his work blends the political with the personal, resulting in striking images with tangible sociopolitical consequences b

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In Service, a new photobook published by Prestel, Platon presents a collection of images which explores the wide-ranging and often surprising effects of war on soldiers, on families, and on society at large. It is a comprehensive study which moves from the surreal to the brutal to the tragic, a dizzying survey of the scale of war.