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.

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 ...

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 ...