1 00:00:20,604 --> 00:00:22,022 [Platon] I'm not really a photographer at all. 2 00:00:24,858 --> 00:00:26,818 The camera is nothing more than a tool. 3 00:00:28,570 --> 00:00:29,780 Communication, 4 00:00:30,822 --> 00:00:32,115 simplicity, 5 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:34,618 shapes on a page. 6 00:00:37,246 --> 00:00:40,165 What's important is the story, 7 00:00:41,250 --> 00:00:44,753 the message, the feeling. 8 00:00:45,712 --> 00:00:47,214 [man in Greek] Sit here? 9 00:00:48,799 --> 00:00:50,008 [Platon] The connection. 10 00:00:50,092 --> 00:00:52,970 [speaking Greek] 11 00:00:53,053 --> 00:00:54,721 How do you make this... 12 00:00:54,805 --> 00:00:57,766 [in Greek] Yes. There, there. 13 00:00:57,849 --> 00:00:58,934 reach people? 14 00:00:59,017 --> 00:01:01,311 [speaking encouragement in Greek] 15 00:01:02,271 --> 00:01:09,027 It's a combination of graphic simplicity and the power of spirit and soul. 16 00:01:11,154 --> 00:01:14,366 [man in Greek] You want angry, not happy. 17 00:01:17,786 --> 00:01:18,996 [Platon] It's design. 18 00:01:19,079 --> 00:01:21,873 [music playing] 19 00:02:27,689 --> 00:02:29,691 [camera clicks and winds] 20 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:54,132 [Platon] Cory, can you show me the fisherman? 21 00:02:55,884 --> 00:02:56,968 Okay. 22 00:02:59,346 --> 00:03:01,765 I think that looks pretty nice. 23 00:03:01,848 --> 00:03:05,769 I know that Bob will be able to bring so much texture out of the sea. 24 00:03:05,852 --> 00:03:06,686 [Cory] Oh, yeah. 25 00:03:06,770 --> 00:03:10,649 And there's loads of stuff in the island you can't see, but we'll bring it out. 26 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,654 This is denim, which will be a gift to us because of the texture. 27 00:03:15,737 --> 00:03:19,574 -I hit it really hard. -All the wood, Bob can bring all that out. 28 00:03:20,492 --> 00:03:24,079 -Okay. Let's set up for the shoot. -Cool. 29 00:03:31,378 --> 00:03:34,172 [Pollack] You can look at a Platon portrait, 30 00:03:34,256 --> 00:03:36,216 and you know it's by Platon. 31 00:03:36,299 --> 00:03:40,137 He has photographed the most important people in the world 32 00:03:40,220 --> 00:03:42,347 from the last two decades. 33 00:03:43,223 --> 00:03:48,311 A Platon portrait is about lighting, it's about the person's eyes, 34 00:03:48,395 --> 00:03:51,481 it's about the graphic nature of how he positions the camera. 35 00:03:51,565 --> 00:03:55,819 Sometimes it's from below, sometimes it's straight on. 36 00:03:55,902 --> 00:03:57,988 Sometimes it's really about the hands 37 00:03:58,071 --> 00:04:01,616 and about getting an exaggerated look from the person. 38 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:03,744 It is about getting the soul. 39 00:04:05,787 --> 00:04:09,624 [Lois] Everybody he shoots has a look in their eye... 40 00:04:13,503 --> 00:04:14,713 where you say, "Holy shit!" 41 00:04:16,506 --> 00:04:20,552 You're drawn to it, and somehow he gets it all the time. 42 00:04:21,970 --> 00:04:25,640 But I really think he's a mystical and magical photographer. 43 00:04:27,392 --> 00:04:30,187 [Biondi] Platon brought an enormous power 44 00:04:30,270 --> 00:04:34,274 into that square or into that white background. 45 00:04:35,150 --> 00:04:37,778 The composition is graphic. 46 00:04:38,487 --> 00:04:41,156 Once it's published, you can't help but look at it. 47 00:04:41,948 --> 00:04:44,201 And no one can intimidate him, you know, 48 00:04:44,284 --> 00:04:46,077 Putin didn't intimidate him. 49 00:04:46,870 --> 00:04:53,585 Platon has made this his own, and it's bold, graphic and fearless. 50 00:04:56,713 --> 00:04:58,215 [Platon] Before a shoot, 51 00:04:58,298 --> 00:05:01,593 I'm not thinking, "How can I get a good picture?" 52 00:05:02,177 --> 00:05:05,722 but "What can I learn from this person?" 53 00:05:05,806 --> 00:05:06,723 Every time. 54 00:05:09,684 --> 00:05:12,229 The human condition is so complicated. 55 00:05:13,104 --> 00:05:15,315 Questions like: what is good leadership? 56 00:05:15,690 --> 00:05:17,651 How important is compassion? 57 00:05:17,734 --> 00:05:19,903 Following your own moral compass. 58 00:05:20,946 --> 00:05:23,240 How to cope with failure. 59 00:05:24,241 --> 00:05:27,160 Questions that we all actually want to know. 60 00:05:27,744 --> 00:05:28,912 Including myself. 61 00:05:32,290 --> 00:05:33,416 [exhales] 62 00:05:33,500 --> 00:05:38,421 To get to that point where someone is just open, 63 00:05:39,256 --> 00:05:40,882 you've got to earn it. 64 00:05:41,466 --> 00:05:43,426 When a flower just opens to the light, 65 00:05:44,886 --> 00:05:45,846 that's what it is. 66 00:05:46,179 --> 00:05:48,348 -[Cory] Do you want more? -[Platon] No, we should be good. 67 00:05:48,431 --> 00:05:49,808 All right, thanks. 68 00:05:52,477 --> 00:05:53,979 What book shall we give him? 69 00:05:54,062 --> 00:05:56,982 -[assistant] I think Service. -I think definitely Service, right? 70 00:05:57,065 --> 00:05:58,775 Yeah, of course. Yeah. 71 00:05:59,276 --> 00:06:00,110 Yeah. 72 00:06:04,948 --> 00:06:05,907 We're good. 73 00:06:05,991 --> 00:06:07,075 -It's perfect. -[Cory] Okay. 74 00:06:07,158 --> 00:06:08,618 [Platon] I don't know what he's going to be like, 75 00:06:08,702 --> 00:06:12,205 I don't know how open he's gonna be. 76 00:06:13,206 --> 00:06:14,666 If he's gonna be nervous, 77 00:06:15,959 --> 00:06:17,294 how warm he's gonna be, 78 00:06:17,377 --> 00:06:21,214 how conservative he's gonna be with his personality. 79 00:06:22,215 --> 00:06:24,092 You have to prepare yourself for that. 80 00:06:24,593 --> 00:06:26,845 [entrance buzzer] 81 00:06:29,306 --> 00:06:31,516 [Biondi] It is very unselfish, really. 82 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:36,771 He's generally interested in whoever is there in front of him, 83 00:06:36,855 --> 00:06:41,234 and this does something, you know, and people are willing to work with him. 84 00:06:41,693 --> 00:06:45,238 Well, this has been quite a journey to meet you. 85 00:06:45,322 --> 00:06:48,450 Well, I looked through your site last night. 86 00:06:48,533 --> 00:06:51,494 -Right. -Just incredible pictures. Remarkable. 87 00:06:51,578 --> 00:06:53,496 -Well, incredible subjects. -Yes. 88 00:06:53,580 --> 00:06:55,165 I see. Hi, Bill. 89 00:06:55,248 --> 00:06:56,082 [both laugh] 90 00:06:56,166 --> 00:06:57,667 -George is behind. -George? Over there? 91 00:06:57,751 --> 00:06:59,002 And so is Barack. 92 00:07:00,462 --> 00:07:03,006 I've got a present for you, my book. 93 00:07:03,089 --> 00:07:04,507 Oh, thank you. Ooh! 94 00:07:04,591 --> 00:07:06,676 [Platon] And it's the whole military project. 95 00:07:09,054 --> 00:07:12,349 It's really a tribute to all the men and women who serve their country. 96 00:07:13,016 --> 00:07:14,392 And family members. 97 00:07:14,476 --> 00:07:18,396 As I discovered through doing it. I didn't really understand that. 98 00:07:19,564 --> 00:07:21,191 [Powell] People don't know what it's like. 99 00:07:22,275 --> 00:07:25,570 By the time my son was ten years old, 100 00:07:25,654 --> 00:07:29,783 I'd been away three years of his life, two years in Vietnam and a year in Korea. 101 00:07:30,492 --> 00:07:32,619 People don't realize the toll it takes on a family-- 102 00:07:32,702 --> 00:07:34,204 -And a wife. -And a wife. 103 00:07:36,164 --> 00:07:38,750 [Platon] Taking a picture is very technical, 104 00:07:38,833 --> 00:07:43,171 but 99.9% is spent on this connection 105 00:07:43,254 --> 00:07:46,299 that allows me to reach someone. 106 00:07:46,383 --> 00:07:47,968 And through that connection, 107 00:07:48,051 --> 00:07:50,929 there's just a chance you're going to feel something too. 108 00:07:52,263 --> 00:07:55,225 Right now, so, this is paper. Don't lean on this. 109 00:07:55,308 --> 00:07:56,977 -Got it. -Have a seat. 110 00:07:57,060 --> 00:08:01,815 So, uh, probably, more world leaders have sat on this box 111 00:08:01,898 --> 00:08:03,650 than any other chair on the planet. 112 00:08:03,733 --> 00:08:05,735 Gaddafi sat on that box and Putin. 113 00:08:05,819 --> 00:08:07,654 -So... -[all laugh] 114 00:08:07,737 --> 00:08:09,447 Not all bottoms are good bottoms. 115 00:08:13,994 --> 00:08:17,122 Having your portrait taken is a collaboration, 116 00:08:17,205 --> 00:08:19,124 or a dance, or a battle, 117 00:08:19,624 --> 00:08:22,210 depending on how I'm feeling that day 118 00:08:22,293 --> 00:08:23,920 and how my sitter's feeling. 119 00:08:24,921 --> 00:08:25,839 Click. 120 00:08:25,922 --> 00:08:29,467 With Chavez, I had 30 seconds and I got one frame. 121 00:08:30,176 --> 00:08:34,514 But he gave me his personality on a plate and he knew it. 122 00:08:35,306 --> 00:08:37,350 He got up. He turns 'round, 123 00:08:37,434 --> 00:08:39,561 puts his fist in the air like a power salute 124 00:08:39,644 --> 00:08:41,438 and he shouts, "Platon!" 125 00:08:41,521 --> 00:08:44,024 It was just the most extraordinary moment! 126 00:08:44,816 --> 00:08:48,778 There I am in front of Putin, I'm asking him about The Beatles. 127 00:08:50,155 --> 00:08:53,533 I don't know if I'm gonna get in trouble or not. 128 00:08:53,616 --> 00:08:57,704 But with Putin, you have to go in close, because no one gets close to Putin. 129 00:09:00,665 --> 00:09:02,709 When I was doing Gaddafi, 130 00:09:02,792 --> 00:09:09,674 I knew that this is going to be a moment where the story is summed up. 131 00:09:10,675 --> 00:09:17,182 I've never experienced a chilling sense of menace and defiance. 132 00:09:17,265 --> 00:09:19,851 He's not really posing for me. 133 00:09:19,934 --> 00:09:21,644 He's posing for America. 134 00:09:24,439 --> 00:09:28,359 My work is made from lots of brief encounters 135 00:09:28,443 --> 00:09:31,321 with extraordinary movers and shakers of our time. 136 00:09:33,364 --> 00:09:35,700 [Pollack] It could be President of the United States 137 00:09:35,784 --> 00:09:38,411 or it could be an undocumented migrant. 138 00:09:38,912 --> 00:09:43,374 And he's always finding a certain dignity to both 139 00:09:43,458 --> 00:09:46,628 and he's also finding a certain power in both. 140 00:09:47,378 --> 00:09:50,090 He's getting that often through the person's eyes. 141 00:09:51,257 --> 00:09:54,969 [Biondi] He says something that starts a conversation. 142 00:09:55,053 --> 00:09:58,473 While it is rather spontaneous, he does his homework. 143 00:09:58,556 --> 00:10:02,519 You know, how did he know that Putin likes The Beatles? 144 00:10:03,478 --> 00:10:04,729 This is unusual for me, 145 00:10:04,813 --> 00:10:09,943 because often I'm working with a magazine and that's the vehicle. 146 00:10:10,443 --> 00:10:12,570 -This is just completely personal. -Mmm-hmm. 147 00:10:12,654 --> 00:10:16,991 It's not even a picture just of you at this point in your life, 148 00:10:17,075 --> 00:10:18,535 it's a picture about us. 149 00:10:19,536 --> 00:10:22,622 [Lois] It ain't just designing a nice photograph. 150 00:10:22,705 --> 00:10:26,209 He communicates something deep inside somebody. 151 00:10:26,709 --> 00:10:28,044 That's his art. 152 00:10:28,628 --> 00:10:29,921 You've been married how long? 153 00:10:30,338 --> 00:10:33,341 Fifty-four years, 54 years in August. 154 00:10:34,008 --> 00:10:35,802 Dude, you've gotta give me advice. 155 00:10:35,885 --> 00:10:37,262 [laughs] 156 00:10:37,345 --> 00:10:39,472 -Pass me the camera. -Do what she tells you. 157 00:10:39,556 --> 00:10:41,766 That's the best advice, do what she-- 158 00:10:41,850 --> 00:10:43,184 My wife will love you for that. 159 00:10:43,268 --> 00:10:44,811 -Play dumb, don't argue. -Right. 160 00:10:44,894 --> 00:10:46,146 I don't know about playing dumb, 161 00:10:46,229 --> 00:10:48,773 I actually just have to be myself, which is pretty dumb. 162 00:10:48,857 --> 00:10:49,983 [both laugh] 163 00:10:50,066 --> 00:10:51,860 All right, now this is how it works. 164 00:10:55,363 --> 00:10:57,615 [Platon] You may ask, "What is a Platon picture?" 165 00:10:58,074 --> 00:11:01,619 There's a path, there's a path from the very beginning. 166 00:11:02,787 --> 00:11:04,873 I was brought up in the Greek Islands, 167 00:11:04,956 --> 00:11:08,168 and my mother is an art historian 168 00:11:08,668 --> 00:11:11,045 and my father was an architect. 169 00:11:12,714 --> 00:11:18,094 He would take me to beautiful buildings and he would say, "Look at this building. 170 00:11:18,928 --> 00:11:22,265 Look at the rhythm, look at the fenestration, 171 00:11:22,849 --> 00:11:25,643 look at the sense of human scale. 172 00:11:26,394 --> 00:11:28,104 How does it relate to us? 173 00:11:29,022 --> 00:11:32,859 And look at the majesty of this giant beautiful thing 174 00:11:32,942 --> 00:11:34,903 that someone created and designed." 175 00:11:38,281 --> 00:11:42,035 My father used to do these beautiful drawings in pen and ink. 176 00:11:43,036 --> 00:11:47,332 And I grew up with this sort of black and white aesthetic in my head. 177 00:11:47,957 --> 00:11:49,626 It was so bold. 178 00:11:50,460 --> 00:11:56,591 I spent most of my adult life in the dark with a small red light on, 179 00:11:57,175 --> 00:12:00,053 trying to find that visual language. 180 00:12:01,095 --> 00:12:05,808 If it's necessary, it's in there. If it's not necessary, it's not there. 181 00:12:06,643 --> 00:12:08,937 So strip it down, simplify it. 182 00:12:09,604 --> 00:12:11,648 Just go... for the core. 183 00:12:13,900 --> 00:12:17,111 So I got used to looking at something like the Acropolis 184 00:12:17,195 --> 00:12:18,738 and thinking, "God, the power." 185 00:12:19,489 --> 00:12:23,242 And many years later, I found myself in front of Bill Clinton, 186 00:12:23,326 --> 00:12:25,328 the first president I worked with. 187 00:12:25,411 --> 00:12:27,872 I mean, he's just a larger-than-life character. 188 00:12:27,956 --> 00:12:30,667 You have to get this giant monument of power. 189 00:12:31,251 --> 00:12:34,087 It almost has the same feeling as the Acropolis. 190 00:12:34,170 --> 00:12:35,630 [guitar music playing] 191 00:12:36,923 --> 00:12:39,217 There were churches everywhere in Greece. 192 00:12:40,009 --> 00:12:41,636 In that church, you're going to have 193 00:12:41,719 --> 00:12:46,265 a singular simple portrait of a religious figure. 194 00:12:47,058 --> 00:12:50,645 And it's just head and shoulders and there's probably a halo. 195 00:12:51,354 --> 00:12:53,314 That graphic simplicity 196 00:12:53,398 --> 00:12:56,734 taps in all my design ideas, all the things I'm drawn to. 197 00:12:57,610 --> 00:13:02,198 A religious icon structure mixed with modernist design. 198 00:13:04,033 --> 00:13:06,828 Simple. Bold. Clear. 199 00:13:08,079 --> 00:13:09,998 And you end up with a Platon picture. 200 00:13:12,709 --> 00:13:15,628 So I grew up being educated as a designer. 201 00:13:16,838 --> 00:13:18,881 I studied graphic design at art college. 202 00:13:20,591 --> 00:13:24,929 My deep respect for form and positive and negative space 203 00:13:25,013 --> 00:13:31,185 comes from studying Frank Lloyd Wright's idea of compression and expansion. 204 00:13:31,853 --> 00:13:33,813 You walk into a Frank Lloyd Wright building 205 00:13:33,896 --> 00:13:38,192 and the entranceway is so small, it makes you almost dip your head. 206 00:13:39,318 --> 00:13:41,946 And then, as soon as you walk into the main room, 207 00:13:42,030 --> 00:13:44,073 he blows up the space 208 00:13:44,157 --> 00:13:45,825 and it makes you feel... 209 00:13:45,908 --> 00:13:46,951 [inhales] 210 00:13:47,035 --> 00:13:48,578 "Aw, that's so good." 211 00:13:49,162 --> 00:13:52,248 These are all lessons I've put into my work. 212 00:13:53,499 --> 00:13:55,668 If I can tap into someone's spirit, 213 00:13:56,753 --> 00:14:00,923 it's the same feeling as when you walk into a Frank Lloyd Wright room. 214 00:14:01,007 --> 00:14:04,177 It opens you up. It does something. 215 00:14:05,219 --> 00:14:08,848 And that's either a feeling of complete menace or fear, 216 00:14:08,931 --> 00:14:12,101 or feeling of inspiration and hope. 217 00:14:12,185 --> 00:14:14,979 But it does do something to you, as a person. 218 00:14:16,898 --> 00:14:21,778 Another great designer and incredible person through media 219 00:14:21,861 --> 00:14:23,196 is George Lois. 220 00:14:24,447 --> 00:14:27,241 He's the one that taught me to be a cultural provocateur. 221 00:14:28,409 --> 00:14:30,745 That's what I can do in society. 222 00:14:30,828 --> 00:14:33,373 I can't solve any other problems, but provoke. 223 00:14:34,499 --> 00:14:37,085 I consider him one of the few people I know 224 00:14:37,168 --> 00:14:38,711 who are cultural provocateurs. 225 00:14:39,504 --> 00:14:44,592 I think everything he photographs, there's a chance for him to make a comment 226 00:14:44,675 --> 00:14:47,929 about what the hell's going on in the world, good or bad. 227 00:14:48,971 --> 00:14:51,849 And he deeply cares about the poor. He cares about the... 228 00:14:52,225 --> 00:14:53,226 [stammers] 229 00:14:53,810 --> 00:14:55,812 He just cares about humanity. 230 00:14:59,690 --> 00:15:05,154 [Platon] All my heroes are people who teach me about pushing buttons 231 00:15:05,238 --> 00:15:10,451 and pushing myself to a point where I can make you feel something. 232 00:15:12,912 --> 00:15:17,875 [Pollack] Platon approaches all of his pictures as an art director. 233 00:15:18,501 --> 00:15:21,712 He embeds in his shoots 234 00:15:22,296 --> 00:15:24,757 a sense of pacing, how something's going to lay out. 235 00:15:25,341 --> 00:15:27,427 [Platon] Because I'm trying to simplify everything, 236 00:15:27,510 --> 00:15:30,388 my pictures stand out on the covers of magazines. 237 00:15:30,471 --> 00:15:34,934 But it's really made out of my flaws. 238 00:15:35,017 --> 00:15:37,270 That I can't cope with complication. 239 00:15:38,229 --> 00:15:40,773 I'm extremely dyslexic. 240 00:15:42,024 --> 00:15:44,819 I have trouble writing. I write very slowly. 241 00:15:44,902 --> 00:15:47,029 And reading for me is a huge problem. 242 00:15:48,448 --> 00:15:52,160 For me, a very complex world has to be simplified. 243 00:15:53,077 --> 00:15:54,579 Has to be stripped down. 244 00:15:55,329 --> 00:15:59,917 And design, for me, was a way out of confusion. 245 00:16:00,001 --> 00:16:03,838 Because great design simplifies a very complicated world. 246 00:16:08,009 --> 00:16:10,470 I still shoot with the same type of light. 247 00:16:11,637 --> 00:16:13,055 The same film. 248 00:16:13,973 --> 00:16:15,516 The same box. 249 00:16:16,309 --> 00:16:17,935 The same shoot-through umbrella. 250 00:16:18,728 --> 00:16:19,896 The same camera. 251 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:26,194 Everything is the same and it allows the message to change. 252 00:16:29,822 --> 00:16:32,742 Now, I'm going structure you a bit, so I want your shoulders dead on to me. 253 00:16:32,825 --> 00:16:35,661 Okay? This is all that's in the frame right now, all right? So that's... 254 00:16:35,745 --> 00:16:42,710 I begin with a long lens headshot, color. 255 00:16:42,793 --> 00:16:44,712 That's always my first base. 256 00:16:44,795 --> 00:16:46,255 Don't move, that's beautiful. 257 00:16:46,339 --> 00:16:47,965 Now, I want you to think... 258 00:16:48,049 --> 00:16:49,592 [camera clicks and winds] 259 00:16:49,675 --> 00:16:51,761 about what we talked about with sacrifice. 260 00:16:52,261 --> 00:16:53,888 Stay there, stay there... 261 00:16:53,971 --> 00:16:56,641 And then suddenly, I break through a tiny bit, 262 00:16:56,724 --> 00:17:00,478 and instead of taking it and absorbing it, 263 00:17:00,561 --> 00:17:05,525 I give it right back times a thousand, and I normally yell at their face. 264 00:17:06,067 --> 00:17:07,235 [loudly] Amazing! 265 00:17:08,027 --> 00:17:09,862 Well, let's go home then. What the... 266 00:17:09,946 --> 00:17:12,823 No, we're warming up. It just keeps getting better! 267 00:17:13,574 --> 00:17:14,534 Right, stay with me. 268 00:17:14,617 --> 00:17:19,539 The shock of that destroys all walls that they thought they were building. 269 00:17:19,622 --> 00:17:22,458 Very gently, head a bit this way. Stop! 270 00:17:24,627 --> 00:17:25,670 [camera clicks] 271 00:17:26,045 --> 00:17:27,630 -Black and white. -[Cory] Same thing? 272 00:17:27,713 --> 00:17:29,173 Yep. Black background. 273 00:17:30,633 --> 00:17:32,385 I want you to stay exactly where you are. 274 00:17:32,468 --> 00:17:35,263 We're going to put a small black background behind you. 275 00:17:35,346 --> 00:17:37,890 -Mm-hmm. -Okay. Gabby will come in. 276 00:17:37,974 --> 00:17:43,062 I'll put up a black background, because I want a sense of closed intimacy. 277 00:17:43,813 --> 00:17:45,064 -You okay? -[Powell] Yeah. 278 00:17:45,147 --> 00:17:46,440 Now, keep your spirit. 279 00:17:47,275 --> 00:17:48,192 Don't move. 280 00:17:49,610 --> 00:17:51,153 That's beautiful. Hold that. 281 00:17:52,154 --> 00:17:53,364 Eyes here. That's it. 282 00:17:54,282 --> 00:17:55,408 Beautiful. 283 00:17:56,033 --> 00:17:57,493 [camera clicks and winds] 284 00:17:57,577 --> 00:18:00,746 One more, black and white. We're good here. Go to white background. 285 00:18:02,248 --> 00:18:07,628 I don't believe you should ever allow your tools to dominate the message. 286 00:18:08,588 --> 00:18:15,136 Great design is when all those things take a backseat and you get the message. 287 00:18:16,721 --> 00:18:18,472 [Pollack] He still shoots with film. 288 00:18:18,556 --> 00:18:23,561 That really creates a very different set between a photographer and a subject. 289 00:18:24,186 --> 00:18:25,896 When you're photographing digital, 290 00:18:25,980 --> 00:18:30,443 you're constantly looking at the pictures on the screen 291 00:18:30,526 --> 00:18:33,738 and what has happened is you're losing that intimacy 292 00:18:33,821 --> 00:18:35,823 between photographer and subject. 293 00:18:36,532 --> 00:18:38,659 The magic part of the relationship 294 00:18:38,743 --> 00:18:41,245 of getting to the picture that you want to make. 295 00:18:41,954 --> 00:18:43,205 [clicking] 296 00:18:43,289 --> 00:18:44,123 [Platon] Hold that. 297 00:18:44,707 --> 00:18:45,625 Cory, come lower. 298 00:18:45,708 --> 00:18:50,296 I need to be close to my sitters, and I need to feel what they're feeling. 299 00:18:51,464 --> 00:18:55,593 It's a very painful process of growth and experience. 300 00:18:55,676 --> 00:18:56,761 Don't move. 301 00:18:56,844 --> 00:18:59,221 I learned that being an immigrant myself. 302 00:19:02,391 --> 00:19:06,479 When I arrived in England at the age of eight years old, 303 00:19:06,562 --> 00:19:09,315 I wasn't just a foreigner. I was a "bloody foreigner." 304 00:19:10,149 --> 00:19:14,070 Years later, I found myself walking on a Saturday afternoon 305 00:19:14,153 --> 00:19:17,990 and... I got jumped by this guy. 306 00:19:19,116 --> 00:19:21,577 And he beat the living daylights out of me. 307 00:19:23,579 --> 00:19:29,460 Skull fractured, both cheek bones, eye sockets, all my ribs busted. 308 00:19:30,670 --> 00:19:32,713 And I was a mess, man. 309 00:19:33,547 --> 00:19:37,385 It was just like, "Why me?" Mumbling through my messed-up mouth. 310 00:19:38,344 --> 00:19:41,472 And this old lady in the bed next door said, 311 00:19:41,555 --> 00:19:42,598 "Young man, 312 00:19:43,099 --> 00:19:44,225 why not you? 313 00:19:45,351 --> 00:19:46,852 What's so special about you?" 314 00:19:48,646 --> 00:19:52,483 I would like to say that angels started singing, and choirs, 315 00:19:52,566 --> 00:19:54,860 and there was a light came through the window, 316 00:19:54,944 --> 00:19:56,320 as a photographer, I saw it... 317 00:19:56,862 --> 00:19:58,280 That's all bullshit. 318 00:19:58,364 --> 00:19:59,532 None of that happened. 319 00:20:00,199 --> 00:20:02,076 But after a while, 320 00:20:02,159 --> 00:20:07,707 I realized that if I can harness the experience of what happened to me, 321 00:20:07,790 --> 00:20:10,376 I now know what it is to hurt. 322 00:20:11,419 --> 00:20:15,756 That is a door to something that you never had before, 323 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:17,299 and that is empathy. 324 00:20:19,719 --> 00:20:24,056 I was doing pictures in London that reacted against façade, 325 00:20:24,890 --> 00:20:28,436 because fame and power and celebrity meant nothing to me. 326 00:20:29,937 --> 00:20:32,815 My early pictures, like Alexander McQueen, 327 00:20:32,898 --> 00:20:34,942 are part of that process of trying to say, 328 00:20:35,526 --> 00:20:39,572 "Screw looking great and suave and sophisticated, 329 00:20:39,655 --> 00:20:41,240 I want some truth." 330 00:20:43,868 --> 00:20:45,536 I was shooting from the hip 331 00:20:45,619 --> 00:20:48,664 in street magazines that were coming out of London. 332 00:20:49,957 --> 00:20:54,044 So one day, I got a call from JFK Jr.'s office. 333 00:20:54,128 --> 00:20:59,258 He saw all that work in Face, Arena, i-D, 334 00:20:59,341 --> 00:21:03,387 and he said, "There's something in your work that lacks polish. 335 00:21:03,971 --> 00:21:06,891 This is the kind of work I want in George magazine." 336 00:21:07,433 --> 00:21:10,394 If I look at the picture and I feel I know them, 337 00:21:10,478 --> 00:21:11,479 that's what I want. 338 00:21:11,562 --> 00:21:13,898 Show me what it's like to meet them. 339 00:21:14,523 --> 00:21:18,569 And it began me on a path, which was incredible. 340 00:21:21,572 --> 00:21:24,366 I thought that's gonna be my big break in America. 341 00:21:26,327 --> 00:21:29,872 There's no way I'd have access to people at the highest level 342 00:21:30,623 --> 00:21:32,124 without George magazine. 343 00:21:32,917 --> 00:21:35,377 It gave me confidence to keep pushing. 344 00:21:38,172 --> 00:21:42,551 I would be a fraud if I said I wasn't ever dazzled by the lights. 345 00:21:42,635 --> 00:21:44,178 It's the most dangerous thing. 346 00:21:44,762 --> 00:21:46,180 You stop thinking straight. 347 00:21:48,766 --> 00:21:55,189 And when John tragically died, I thought, "It's all over." 348 00:22:01,779 --> 00:22:03,322 So I went back to Greece. 349 00:22:03,823 --> 00:22:04,657 [ship's horn blaring] 350 00:22:04,740 --> 00:22:08,160 Just focused my creative attention on what I know. 351 00:22:09,787 --> 00:22:12,331 Where I can express myself in an authentic way. 352 00:22:13,457 --> 00:22:16,544 And that's around real people who don't give a shit 353 00:22:16,627 --> 00:22:18,963 about whether they've got lines on their face. 354 00:22:22,091 --> 00:22:23,843 [men speaking Greek inside] 355 00:22:27,388 --> 00:22:28,222 Oh! 356 00:22:29,223 --> 00:22:31,183 -[Platon in Greek] Hello, my friend! -[man] Hello, my friend! 357 00:22:31,267 --> 00:22:34,061 [in English] How are you? So nice to see you again. 358 00:22:34,144 --> 00:22:35,437 [in English] You look fantastic. 359 00:22:37,273 --> 00:22:41,318 So what we're going to do is sit. Sit where your father sat. 360 00:22:43,362 --> 00:22:45,281 -So he was always here and there. -Yes. 361 00:22:45,364 --> 00:22:48,117 [Platon] When I was a kid, I would always sit and draw in the square. 362 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,578 I used to draw all the old men and ladies. 363 00:22:51,912 --> 00:22:53,539 It was calm and slow. 364 00:22:54,623 --> 00:22:58,252 The old man would sit in that chair for five hours. 365 00:22:59,503 --> 00:23:02,298 When you are still and sitting, 366 00:23:02,798 --> 00:23:05,342 your powers of observation go through the roof. 367 00:23:05,843 --> 00:23:09,305 If someone walks by, it's a massive event. 368 00:23:09,388 --> 00:23:12,683 You start noticing that the lady's stockings have got a tear, 369 00:23:12,766 --> 00:23:16,270 that the bag they're carrying maybe has nothing in it. 370 00:23:18,063 --> 00:23:20,149 You tap into the human condition. 371 00:23:20,232 --> 00:23:22,276 That's a very powerful thing. 372 00:23:22,943 --> 00:23:28,949 And it's those amazing details of humanity that you start to understand. 373 00:23:29,033 --> 00:23:30,951 [acoustic guitar playing] 374 00:23:32,703 --> 00:23:34,705 [guitar continues playing] 375 00:23:35,664 --> 00:23:37,499 [church bells ringing] 376 00:23:39,251 --> 00:23:40,753 [people chattering in Greek] 377 00:23:50,262 --> 00:23:54,058 -[woman in Greek] Oh! How are you? -[Platon in Greek] Yes, fine. 378 00:23:54,141 --> 00:23:58,562 -Bravo. -You? So-so? Come on... 379 00:23:58,646 --> 00:24:00,689 No, I'm fine. I have my cane. 380 00:24:00,773 --> 00:24:03,108 -Okay, okay! -What can we do? 381 00:24:03,192 --> 00:24:04,193 [laughs] 382 00:24:05,444 --> 00:24:07,071 [continues laughing] 383 00:24:07,154 --> 00:24:10,574 You know, people say I probably developed my style 384 00:24:10,658 --> 00:24:12,868 looking at Richard Avedon or Irving Penn. 385 00:24:13,702 --> 00:24:15,788 But that's not actually true. 386 00:24:15,871 --> 00:24:19,541 My white backgrounds come from these white houses. 387 00:24:19,625 --> 00:24:21,335 [laughing and chatting in Greek] 388 00:24:24,213 --> 00:24:28,092 My 35mil. stuff is about context and atmosphere. 389 00:24:30,928 --> 00:24:33,931 It's not always about getting all that detail 390 00:24:34,014 --> 00:24:36,433 that I would get in a studio sitting. 391 00:24:39,395 --> 00:24:40,604 Always available light. 392 00:24:42,564 --> 00:24:44,983 The best light is just raw sunlight. 393 00:24:46,944 --> 00:24:48,570 No lights, no assistants. 394 00:24:49,613 --> 00:24:51,949 It's photography alive and kicking. 395 00:24:54,576 --> 00:25:01,417 The only thing you can do is focus on compassion, dignity and humility. 396 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:02,668 [whispers in Greek] 397 00:25:04,670 --> 00:25:06,255 [camera clicks, winds forward] 398 00:25:08,006 --> 00:25:09,925 [camera clicks, winds forward] 399 00:25:11,969 --> 00:25:13,637 [clicking and winding continues] 400 00:25:15,597 --> 00:25:17,182 [softly] It's a very powerful connection, 401 00:25:20,602 --> 00:25:23,647 and that is what photography feels like. 402 00:25:23,731 --> 00:25:25,482 [sighs] 403 00:25:25,566 --> 00:25:26,859 [laughs softly] 404 00:25:27,860 --> 00:25:29,987 [Platon] At the end of it, you've got the aesthetic. 405 00:25:30,487 --> 00:25:31,822 That comes last. 406 00:25:35,617 --> 00:25:37,327 [traditional Greek music playing] 407 00:25:37,411 --> 00:25:41,165 When I came back to Greece, I came back to my people. 408 00:25:47,921 --> 00:25:52,050 And it was an empowering experience of finding my feet as a human being. 409 00:25:55,804 --> 00:25:57,139 [whoops] 410 00:25:57,222 --> 00:25:58,766 [more whooping] 411 00:26:01,518 --> 00:26:03,270 [cheering and applauding] 412 00:26:05,939 --> 00:26:08,400 [cheering and clapping continues] 413 00:26:08,484 --> 00:26:10,778 After that, I went back to New York 414 00:26:10,861 --> 00:26:14,156 and I spent a year working on the material with my team 415 00:26:14,239 --> 00:26:16,241 and then The New Yorker heard about it. 416 00:26:17,034 --> 00:26:20,829 [Biondi] We were actually looking of adding another photographer. 417 00:26:20,913 --> 00:26:26,543 He showed me his work, and what I remember of them most were his Greek photographs. 418 00:26:29,838 --> 00:26:32,216 [Platon] The irony is I went back to Greece 419 00:26:32,299 --> 00:26:38,222 to do something that is the antithesis of what I expected The New Yorker to like. 420 00:26:42,017 --> 00:26:47,022 My first project for them was a large-scale photo essay. 421 00:26:47,689 --> 00:26:51,819 We were heading into a very complicated, divisive election. 422 00:26:52,402 --> 00:26:53,695 Obama's first election. 423 00:26:55,030 --> 00:27:00,744 And we wanted to do something that would provoke respectful debate in America. 424 00:27:02,162 --> 00:27:05,040 And I got embedded with the US Military 425 00:27:05,124 --> 00:27:09,169 as our troops trained for America's most recent wars. 426 00:27:09,670 --> 00:27:10,963 [gentle piano music playing] 427 00:27:11,046 --> 00:27:13,382 It became a year-long project. 428 00:27:14,883 --> 00:27:20,264 We went to Arlington Cemetery as one of the important sessions. 429 00:27:21,390 --> 00:27:28,021 And I noticed this lady takes a fold-out picnic chair every day to her son's grave, 430 00:27:29,314 --> 00:27:31,650 and reads to her son's gravestone. 431 00:27:31,733 --> 00:27:33,360 [piano music continues] 432 00:27:33,443 --> 00:27:35,404 I was just devastated. 433 00:27:36,864 --> 00:27:38,699 And if it meant something to me, 434 00:27:38,782 --> 00:27:41,660 there's just a chance it means something to other people. 435 00:27:42,494 --> 00:27:44,830 Is it wrong to be a Muslim in this country? 436 00:27:44,913 --> 00:27:46,498 The answer is, "No, that's not America." 437 00:27:46,582 --> 00:27:49,001 [Powell] I feel strongly about this particular point 438 00:27:49,084 --> 00:27:51,545 because of a picture I saw in a magazine. 439 00:27:51,628 --> 00:27:55,799 It was a photo-essay about troops who were serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. 440 00:27:56,216 --> 00:27:59,553 And one picture was of a mother in Arlington Cemetery. 441 00:27:59,636 --> 00:28:02,723 She had her head on the headstone of her son's grave, 442 00:28:02,806 --> 00:28:06,768 and you could see his awards, Purple Heart, Bronze Star. 443 00:28:06,852 --> 00:28:09,479 He was 20 years old. He died in Iraq. 444 00:28:09,563 --> 00:28:11,148 And then at the very top, 445 00:28:11,231 --> 00:28:13,817 it had a crescent and a star of the Islamic faith. 446 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,528 He was an American and he gave his life. 447 00:28:18,238 --> 00:28:20,032 There was something I had wanted to say 448 00:28:20,115 --> 00:28:24,870 about the intolerance that is being shown increasingly in 2008, 449 00:28:24,953 --> 00:28:26,246 and frankly it has continued. 450 00:28:27,581 --> 00:28:30,334 And so I said, "How can I really illustrate and demonstrate this?" 451 00:28:30,417 --> 00:28:32,002 And bam, there was the photo. 452 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:36,590 [Platon] That was the beginning. 453 00:28:36,673 --> 00:28:39,218 I realized that from now on, 454 00:28:39,801 --> 00:28:42,554 the hero is the person that inspires us 455 00:28:42,638 --> 00:28:46,225 to think again about our own moral compass 456 00:28:46,975 --> 00:28:50,604 and our own responsibility as global citizens. 457 00:28:52,356 --> 00:28:55,984 Platon talks truth to power in his work, 458 00:28:56,068 --> 00:28:57,569 and he talks truth to power 459 00:28:57,653 --> 00:29:00,739 in the subjects that he chooses to shoot sometimes. 460 00:29:02,699 --> 00:29:04,368 [Platon] Human Rights Watch approached me 461 00:29:04,451 --> 00:29:06,745 and they said, "There's this country called Burma 462 00:29:06,828 --> 00:29:09,122 that's run by a brutal military regime. 463 00:29:09,206 --> 00:29:12,626 No one's talking about it. Can we do something about it?" 464 00:29:13,669 --> 00:29:15,545 We published all the work, 465 00:29:16,171 --> 00:29:17,214 and it blew up! 466 00:29:18,257 --> 00:29:22,219 That sort of aspect of pictures can change the world. 467 00:29:23,095 --> 00:29:26,848 These stories will be placed in publications 468 00:29:26,932 --> 00:29:32,938 and that collectively brings a focus on horrible situations 469 00:29:33,021 --> 00:29:34,815 that exist in the world. 470 00:29:35,899 --> 00:29:40,028 [Platon] I realized if I were to raise my own money, 471 00:29:40,112 --> 00:29:42,489 I could go to my friends in the NGO community, 472 00:29:42,572 --> 00:29:46,910 and I'll say, "Give me your stories and I will bring them to life." 473 00:29:47,619 --> 00:29:51,915 [Pollack] Platon came to me with an incredible series of pictures 474 00:29:51,999 --> 00:29:55,711 on undocumented migrants in this country. 475 00:29:56,837 --> 00:29:59,715 He was interested in families that were being torn apart, 476 00:30:00,757 --> 00:30:05,095 and we were able to publish that work. And not only did he photograph them, 477 00:30:05,178 --> 00:30:06,430 but he interviewed them. 478 00:30:07,597 --> 00:30:09,641 It was an incredible series. 479 00:30:12,019 --> 00:30:14,521 [Platon] And my job is to be the bridge builder. 480 00:30:15,772 --> 00:30:20,736 And we're nothing as human beings if we don't experience that connection. 481 00:30:22,863 --> 00:30:26,199 So I founded The People's Portfolio 482 00:30:26,283 --> 00:30:28,785 to help tell these important stories of our time. 483 00:30:30,037 --> 00:30:31,747 [African drumming] 484 00:30:41,173 --> 00:30:42,716 What brought me to Congo 485 00:30:42,799 --> 00:30:48,263 was a chance meeting with this incredible man called Dr. Mukwege. 486 00:30:49,014 --> 00:30:50,724 He's a gynecologist. 487 00:30:50,807 --> 00:30:52,517 He set up a small practice 488 00:30:52,601 --> 00:30:56,646 to help women give birth in a happy, normal environment. 489 00:30:56,730 --> 00:30:58,774 But what started to happen, 490 00:30:59,691 --> 00:31:02,361 women were arriving at the gates of his hospital 491 00:31:02,444 --> 00:31:07,824 who experienced the most traumatic sexual violence you could imagine. 492 00:31:10,285 --> 00:31:13,830 He's dealing with this trauma of civilization. 493 00:31:15,332 --> 00:31:17,751 He invited me to his hospital with my team. 494 00:31:18,460 --> 00:31:20,629 I was committed to see if I could help him. 495 00:31:22,381 --> 00:31:25,509 And I said I would love to photograph the survivors 496 00:31:25,592 --> 00:31:28,053 and I would like to tell a broader story as well. 497 00:31:30,347 --> 00:31:33,016 So I hooked up with two partners, 498 00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:34,976 the Panzi Hospital Foundation 499 00:31:35,852 --> 00:31:39,147 and then another organization called Physicians for Human Rights. 500 00:31:39,731 --> 00:31:42,401 And we all formed this giant network together. 501 00:31:42,484 --> 00:31:43,610 [Mukwege] Hello, Platon. 502 00:31:48,532 --> 00:31:50,033 It's been a long journey. 503 00:31:50,117 --> 00:31:54,663 -And we're here for you, my whole team. -Thank you. 504 00:31:56,206 --> 00:31:58,750 [Platon] This was the hardest mission I've ever put together. 505 00:31:58,834 --> 00:32:01,503 It was a three-year project to plan. 506 00:32:01,586 --> 00:32:03,713 -[people singing] -[drums banging] 507 00:32:18,603 --> 00:32:21,064 [Platon] People need to know what's going on in Congo. 508 00:32:21,773 --> 00:32:25,610 And my job is to build that bridge in a solid way. 509 00:32:25,694 --> 00:32:31,032 The power of the content, that's the whole point of design. 510 00:32:31,116 --> 00:32:34,578 That moment when you feel something very powerful. 511 00:32:35,203 --> 00:32:36,413 [all singers] Amen. 512 00:32:37,038 --> 00:32:39,791 [Mukwege in Swahili] He is a famous photographer 513 00:32:39,875 --> 00:32:41,835 and is known all over the world. 514 00:32:42,544 --> 00:32:43,420 Platon. 515 00:32:43,503 --> 00:32:45,505 [crowd clapping and laughing] 516 00:32:48,884 --> 00:32:50,552 [Mukwege] Glory be to the Lord. 517 00:32:50,635 --> 00:32:51,761 [all] Amen. 518 00:32:54,431 --> 00:32:57,726 [Platon] The crisis in the Congo is very complicated. 519 00:32:59,227 --> 00:33:01,313 It's a mineral-rich country, 520 00:33:01,396 --> 00:33:02,898 but with that mineral wealth 521 00:33:02,981 --> 00:33:08,778 has also come great corruption, rebels, civilians, militia. 522 00:33:08,862 --> 00:33:10,447 [gunfire] 523 00:33:11,072 --> 00:33:13,575 The underlying notion of the Congo 524 00:33:13,658 --> 00:33:16,995 is that if you want territory, you take it. 525 00:33:18,622 --> 00:33:21,082 And the easiest and cheapest way to take the land 526 00:33:21,166 --> 00:33:25,045 begins with using rape as a weapon of warfare. 527 00:33:29,341 --> 00:33:32,052 Rape is cheaper than bullets. 528 00:33:37,349 --> 00:33:40,101 We all just have to be aware. 529 00:33:40,185 --> 00:33:41,978 We're dealing with women 530 00:33:42,062 --> 00:33:44,940 who have been through the worst circumstances in their lives, 531 00:33:45,023 --> 00:33:46,691 and we're a bunch of guys. 532 00:33:47,317 --> 00:33:49,027 Just be gentle. All right? 533 00:33:49,653 --> 00:33:53,573 I'm going to photograph one at a time, maybe two together. 534 00:33:54,699 --> 00:33:55,700 Okay. 535 00:33:56,868 --> 00:33:58,078 [speaking French] 536 00:33:58,662 --> 00:34:00,288 All right, turn over the paper. 537 00:34:00,372 --> 00:34:02,499 [interpreter speaking indistinctly] 538 00:34:04,584 --> 00:34:06,253 [Platon] Cory, go easy with the reading. 539 00:34:06,336 --> 00:34:07,629 [camera clicks and winds] 540 00:34:10,507 --> 00:34:12,008 [Platon] What makes this work 541 00:34:12,092 --> 00:34:15,595 is not a calculated argument that you've scripted. 542 00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:19,432 It's just the beauty and delicacy of the human condition. 543 00:34:20,725 --> 00:34:23,353 -Pregnant, all from rape? -[male nurse] Yes, all from rape. 544 00:34:23,436 --> 00:34:25,522 [Platon] All right, you got to be fast, Cory. 545 00:34:27,774 --> 00:34:28,900 Okay. 546 00:34:29,776 --> 00:34:30,694 Now... 547 00:34:30,777 --> 00:34:36,241 [Platon] I know exactly where, if I reach my hand, the lens is right there. 548 00:34:36,866 --> 00:34:40,203 I don't want to look down at my camera to adjust the f-stops. 549 00:34:40,287 --> 00:34:43,790 Because that means I'm taking my eye off the story for a second. 550 00:34:44,374 --> 00:34:48,211 If I'm losing the glint in your eye a bit too much, 551 00:34:48,295 --> 00:34:51,756 I'll get you to look just above the lens 552 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,051 and that would just be enough for your eyes to hit the light. 553 00:34:56,052 --> 00:34:58,388 It's just a twist of the neck now. 554 00:35:01,766 --> 00:35:04,769 Sometimes I just touch my chest and gesture out, 555 00:35:04,853 --> 00:35:06,521 as if to say "Open up." 556 00:35:06,605 --> 00:35:09,733 [camera clicks and winds] 557 00:35:13,820 --> 00:35:15,488 Black and white, let's move fast. 558 00:35:17,115 --> 00:35:19,784 [gentle music playing] 559 00:35:21,786 --> 00:35:25,874 Can I ask her to tell me what happened to her? 560 00:35:31,463 --> 00:35:33,965 [Esther in Swahili] One day I was coming from school 561 00:35:34,049 --> 00:35:35,759 and went to fetch water from a river. 562 00:35:35,842 --> 00:35:40,013 I met a man who told me that if I didn't have sex with him, 563 00:35:40,096 --> 00:35:42,557 he promised he'd kill me with a knife. 564 00:35:42,641 --> 00:35:45,935 Then after he let me go. 565 00:35:46,019 --> 00:35:49,856 I got treatment, and after, I gave birth to this baby. 566 00:35:51,733 --> 00:35:53,068 [camera clicks and winds] 567 00:35:57,197 --> 00:35:59,157 [Platon] When I'm really locked in... 568 00:36:01,785 --> 00:36:02,619 Got it. 569 00:36:02,702 --> 00:36:06,164 it's an amazing, terrifying experience, every time. 570 00:36:07,582 --> 00:36:09,793 There's such strength in everyone here. 571 00:36:10,585 --> 00:36:15,882 In these next few pictures, channel all that strength from the women. 572 00:36:16,549 --> 00:36:20,345 It goes through your heart, out, into the camera, 573 00:36:20,428 --> 00:36:22,055 out to the world. 574 00:36:23,848 --> 00:36:25,600 Because if I get it wrong, 575 00:36:25,684 --> 00:36:27,686 I can actually do great harm. 576 00:36:28,853 --> 00:36:29,854 [camera clicks and winds] 577 00:36:29,938 --> 00:36:32,899 It's really important that my homework is done. 578 00:36:33,733 --> 00:36:35,944 [sighs] All right, it's a bloody wrap. 579 00:36:36,027 --> 00:36:37,904 [general chatter] 580 00:36:51,042 --> 00:36:52,544 [upbeat music playing] 581 00:36:54,254 --> 00:36:58,508 All the things I have learnt about the difference between right and wrong, 582 00:36:58,591 --> 00:37:01,136 I need to learn these things through my job. 583 00:37:02,262 --> 00:37:04,723 And if I can pass those values on, 584 00:37:05,724 --> 00:37:06,933 then it's a good thing. 585 00:37:11,813 --> 00:37:15,692 And a lot of the time, to do these things, I'm away all the time. 586 00:37:36,463 --> 00:37:40,884 Here I am talking about the responsibility of telling people's stories 587 00:37:40,967 --> 00:37:42,302 and getting it right... 588 00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:46,473 But I also have a responsibility as a family man. 589 00:37:47,265 --> 00:37:48,183 Shall we get some more? 590 00:37:48,975 --> 00:37:50,935 -All right... -[girl] What are you going to do? 591 00:37:51,019 --> 00:37:52,687 I don't know. I'm going to take this one 592 00:37:52,771 --> 00:37:54,689 and I am going to use the same blue as you. 593 00:37:56,399 --> 00:37:58,109 So just the spots, what do you think? 594 00:37:58,193 --> 00:38:01,362 It's funny, because I am actually the one that freezes time. 595 00:38:03,156 --> 00:38:06,868 So I now know how precious every moment is. 596 00:38:08,912 --> 00:38:12,540 And I'm trying to squeeze it so dry every second. 597 00:38:24,385 --> 00:38:25,762 -Cory? -Yup? 598 00:38:26,846 --> 00:38:30,350 Can you tell me what frame we used for Esther? Was it frame 12? 599 00:38:31,017 --> 00:38:35,396 No, it was contact one, four C, frame three. 600 00:38:41,110 --> 00:38:42,070 Got it. 601 00:38:49,994 --> 00:38:51,120 Hmm... 602 00:38:54,749 --> 00:38:56,668 [gentle piano music playing] 603 00:38:58,127 --> 00:38:59,754 Let's have a look at the edits. 604 00:39:00,755 --> 00:39:03,925 [Cory] This is everything thus far that you've selected. 605 00:39:04,759 --> 00:39:06,261 And then Esther. 606 00:39:06,344 --> 00:39:10,640 So here, there's something beautiful about just focusing on the baby, 607 00:39:10,723 --> 00:39:13,351 but in this case, 608 00:39:14,602 --> 00:39:16,688 I think you need her. 609 00:39:16,771 --> 00:39:20,149 You can tell she's in pain. I mean look, there's a scar. 610 00:39:20,233 --> 00:39:23,653 But I've also seen this shape so many times. 611 00:39:25,238 --> 00:39:29,534 But there's something totally open about this. 612 00:39:30,785 --> 00:39:35,623 No one's performing. She's just very open, very raw. 613 00:39:37,292 --> 00:39:39,335 So let's scan it and give it to Bob. 614 00:39:41,713 --> 00:39:46,009 The drum scanner I have was built by NASA in the '80s. 615 00:39:47,844 --> 00:39:50,638 It does something beautiful to the grain 616 00:39:50,722 --> 00:39:52,849 that you just can't get with other scanners. 617 00:39:55,518 --> 00:39:58,646 Everything I do is based on the dark room. 618 00:39:59,355 --> 00:40:00,815 [Bob] Let me show you this. 619 00:40:00,899 --> 00:40:04,152 The only way I can bring out all these elements in a print 620 00:40:04,235 --> 00:40:06,696 is to start isolating different elements 621 00:40:06,779 --> 00:40:08,615 and treat them all with their own reverence. 622 00:40:08,698 --> 00:40:11,451 I think they're a little intense, so let's bring them down. 623 00:40:11,951 --> 00:40:13,077 The danger of Photoshop 624 00:40:13,161 --> 00:40:15,788 is that everything is just a constant sliding scale. 625 00:40:15,872 --> 00:40:18,082 We never use the magic wand, 626 00:40:18,166 --> 00:40:22,003 which is a tool to just instantly select certain areas. 627 00:40:22,086 --> 00:40:23,755 Everything is hand drawn. 628 00:40:23,838 --> 00:40:24,839 Everything. 629 00:40:24,923 --> 00:40:28,635 And now we're just getting to the bit where we just have to balance it all out. 630 00:40:28,718 --> 00:40:32,263 With all this amazing technology, the tools must never dominate us. 631 00:40:32,972 --> 00:40:33,932 I think we're good. 632 00:40:34,599 --> 00:40:35,600 [Bob] Okay. 633 00:40:35,683 --> 00:40:37,644 [expectant, hopeful music playing] 634 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:50,615 [Platon] It's getting close. 635 00:41:09,801 --> 00:41:10,635 Wow. 636 00:41:10,718 --> 00:41:12,303 [exclaims] 637 00:41:14,889 --> 00:41:15,848 Look at that. 638 00:41:18,017 --> 00:41:19,060 Wow. 639 00:41:22,146 --> 00:41:23,356 That's beautiful. 640 00:41:31,447 --> 00:41:32,865 Through this picture, 641 00:41:34,575 --> 00:41:40,498 she will give other people in a similar position great strength. 642 00:41:44,460 --> 00:41:46,713 So when I press the shutter... 643 00:41:47,839 --> 00:41:48,673 Hold that. 644 00:41:48,756 --> 00:41:50,550 something amazing happens. 645 00:41:50,633 --> 00:41:51,884 Yes! 646 00:41:51,968 --> 00:41:53,511 It's 500th of a second, 647 00:41:54,721 --> 00:41:57,598 but it's freezed an event. 648 00:41:59,892 --> 00:42:02,061 You're looking for a moment 649 00:42:03,104 --> 00:42:08,484 when you feel you're as close to the soul as possible. 650 00:42:09,235 --> 00:42:11,070 That's what good design is, 651 00:42:11,154 --> 00:42:13,698 when it liberates you, and it allows you to do that, 652 00:42:13,781 --> 00:42:17,243 to help you feel something very powerful. 653 00:42:18,202 --> 00:42:20,329 And that's when you make an icon. 654 00:42:26,294 --> 00:42:27,295 [upbeat music playing]