Platon is a communicator and storyteller. Shooting portraits for a range of international publications including Rolling Stone, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ and the Sunday Times Magazine.

“Coming from a graphics background was the best thing for my photography: it taught me to appreciate design and to understand where art directors are coming from. In many ways, I still think of myself as a graphic designer or art director as much as a photographer. Some photographers working for magazines can be fighting the type that is placed around or on the image. I understand it, it is natural to me.

I am dyslexic. My pictures make something simple out of something complicated perhaps because I can’t really function with a lot of complicated things on a page. My simplification to a powerful graphic form works well for the covers of magazines and makes for images that stand out. It is like I produce a logo of somebody’s face.

The most important thing is the people. It is not about photography for me so much as the chance to interact with people, study them, and get to know them a little. I record what I find on film. I never assume that the picture I take is a universal truth – half of it is me, my decision to press the shutter, what I said to them just before I did that. It is what happened between us. It is a very weird job, portraiture.” - Platon