The photographer behind more than 25 TIME covers reflects on what he's learned about leadership from his subjects ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In May, Human Rights Watch brought our staff photographer Platon to Russia to photograph activists. This week’s issue features a Portfolio of nine of those photographs, along with a report by David ...

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 ...