MSNBC host Willie Geist asked the photojournalist about the story behind his Putin portrait. "I photographed him in his private dacha in the middle of a forest outside of Moscow," Platon said.

Heroes often come from the most unlikely of places. Photographer Platon, known for his unflinching close-up portraits of presidents, dictators and other powerful icons of our era, found his in the ...

As Platon guided President-elect Donald Trump to a simple wooden box on the set of the TIME Person of the Year photo shoot at Mar-a-Lago in November, he declared, “More world leaders have sat on ...

Putin who participated in the Immortal Regiment march for the second consecutive year carried the portrait of his father who had fought against fascists during the Great Patriotic War. For Putin ...