Platon

Born in London in 1968, Platon was raised in the Greek Isles by his English mother, an art historian, and Greek father, an architect, until the age of seven when his family returned to London. Heattended St. Martin's School of Art, and after receiving his BA with honors in Graphic Design, he was then awarded an MA in photography and fine art at the Royal College of Art, where one of hisprofessors and mentors was the late John Hind, the creative director of British Vogue. While still a student, he received British Vogue's "Best up-and-coming Photographer" award in 1992, along with theopportunity to contribute both fashion and portrait images to the magazine.

Now an Englishman in New York, Platon left London in 1998 after spending a few years working for George, the magazine aboutpolitics and media culture founded by the late John F. Kennedy, Jr. Recruited to shoot for its premiere issue, Platon maintained a long-term relationship with the magazine and Kennedy, and thissignificant and incomparable introduction to American culture and politics included one of Platon's favorite early assignments: a cross-country trip in order to document the 20 most fascinating men in America.Since the early 1990s, Platon has continued to shoot portrait, and documentary work for a range of international publications, including The New Yorker, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, The New YorkTimes Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, and The Sunday Times Magazine. His advertising credits include campaigns for Credit Suisse Bank, Exxon Mobil, Diesel, the Wall Street Journal, Motorola, Nike,Converse, Verizon, Vittel, Levi's, IBM, Rolex, Ray-Ban, Tanqueray, Kenneth Cole, Issey Miyake, Moschino, Timex and Bertelsmann among others.

In 2007 Platon photographed Russian Premier VladimirPutin for Time Magazine's Person Of The Year Cover. This image was awarded the coveted 1 st prize at 2008 World Press Photo Contest.

Platon is now a staff photographer at The New Yorker, signing a...