In the middle of April, Netflix quietly uploaded the Platon episode of its excellent 2017 docuseries “Abstract: The Art of Design” to YouTube, where you
In the middle of April, Netflix quietly uploaded the Platon episode of its excellent 2017 docuseries “Abstract: The Art of Design” to YouTube, where you can watch it for free, even if you don’t have a subscription. It’s not an exaggeration to call this a must-watch.
“Service” took many weeks to develop but Platon’s enthusiasm for the project never faltered. He rose to each photographic challenge, no matter what difficulties a shoot presented. Like a house being built, stone by stone, the photographs were crafted into a sequence of spreads that in the end added up to an exceptional essay. Access was difficult, shoot times often limited, and making each spread unique instead of repetitive was a great challenge. In addition to portraiture for which Platon is well known, he took documentary images, and even some still-lives. In the end the New Yorker published a series 16 pages and won a National Magazine Award for it. Bravo Platon!
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
via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2016/05/platons-unflinching-photos-of-war-and-its-cost/
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.
“I wanted to focus on a different kind of power, something more authentic.”
via Time: http://time.com/4268520/what-patriotism-means-to-those-who-fight/
“I’ve experienced all the handlers you can imagine and all the egos and authority and power,” Platon tells TIME. “I wanted to focus on a different kind of power, something more authentic.”
For his series “Service,” the photographer Platon followed military members training to fight in Iraq, then visited with them again when they returned home.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-lives-of-american-soldiers-before-and-after-war?mbid=rss
When Platon first arrived at The New Yorker as a staff photographer, in 2008, the magazine was redoubling its editorial attention to the war in Iraq
An interview with Platon, who photographed this issue’s cover with Rand Paul, discussing the experience, his art, plus various portraits throughout.
via The New Republic: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113509/conversation-platon
To be able to give someone the chance to express themselves, to tell their story on a platform that they would never normally get. And in doing so, that platform shifts how we see the times that we are living in. So that really is my mission
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 …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/09/studio-visit-platons-greece.html#slide_ss_0=1
As part of the celebration of Photo Booth’s redesign this week, here is the first installment of a new video series of studio visits with photographers. Below is a behind-the-scenes look at Platon’s “Greece,” which will be exhibited for the first time at Colette, in Paris, this November.
In April, Human Rights Watch brought our staff photographer Platon to Cairo to photograph revolutionaries in Tahrir Square and other Egyptians. This …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/07/platon-egypt-revolution.html
TIME magazine’s new cover story looks at the life of Nobel Prize-winner Aung Sang Suu Kyi since Burma’s military regime released her from house arrest in November. TIME.com has a video interview with photographer Platon, who describes the lengths he and r
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2010/12/photographer-platon-describes-how-he-evaded-burmas-secret-police.html
The most astonishing thing about opening your first box of Kodachromes was discovering that in fact, your lenses really WERE sharp. Somehow the film was just waiting to etch those images in a way no other film could do. It was just a joy (when you didn’t screw up in the field) to open up and scan quickly through a box just back from the lab.
In 1976, Richard Avedon went to Washington to photograph Henry Kissinger. As Avedon was leading him to his mark, Kissinger said, “Be kind to me.”Artists have been making portraits of the mighty for centuries—from Velázquez’s Philip IV to Lucian Freud’s El
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2009/12/07/091207_audioslideshow_platon
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 this magazine, set up a tiny studio off the floor of the General Assembly, and tried to hustle as many of them in front of his lens as possible. For months, members of the magazine’s staff had been writing letters to various governments and embassies, but the project was a five-day-long improvisation, with Platon doing his best to lure the likes of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chávez, and Muammar Qaddafi to his camera.
Here is the long promised audio from Platon’s speech at the Eddie Adams Workshop from a few weeks ago. It’s well worth a listen.