Platon (photographer)

Plato, real name: Platon Antoniou ( * 1968 in London, England) is an English photographer of Greek descent.

Life

Plato is the son of an English mother and a Greek father. He grew up in Greece, but studied in London at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art His photographic portrait of Vladimir Putin was shown on the cover of Time Magazine in 2007. It was awarded the first prize in the World Press Photo Contest.

Plato was hired in 2009 at the New Yorker magazine in New York City as a photographer. In September of that year he photographed during the general meeting of the United Nations (UN) in New York by the attending heads of state from around the world 130 in his makeshift studio in the UN building on the East River. Together with the political editor of the New Yorker, David Remnick, 2011, he published his photo book Platon - Portraits of Power.

Works in public collections

• New -York Historical Society
• The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa Florida, United States
• West Light Photography Museum, Vienna
• Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Publications

• Plato 's Republic. Phaidon Press, London / New York 2004, ISBN 0 - 71484408X.
• With David Remnick (Text): Power Platon - A portrait of power. Translated by Walter Ahlers. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8296-0532-8.