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Platon Antoniou
Photographer
The New Yorker
Platon is an award-winning photographer at The New Yorker. He has shot
portraits for a range of international publications, including Rolling Stone,
the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and over 20 covers for Time
magazine; his 2007 photograph of Vladimir Putin for Time’s Person of the
Year cover won first prize at the World Press Photo Contest. In 2011,
Platon received a Peabody Award for collaboration on “Russia’s Civil
Society” with The New Yorker and Human Rights Watch. He has published
four books of his work: Platon’s Republic, Power, China: Through the
Looking Glass, and Service. In 2013, he founded a nonprofit, The People’s
Portfolio, to support human rights around the world. Platon currently
serves as creative director at large for the Center for Civil and Human
Rights; as a board member for arts and culture at the World Economic
Forum; and as a steward for the Economic Growth and Social Inclusion
Initiative.