Mick Hartley

From the latest New Yorker:

This past September, when nearly all the world’s leaders were in New York for a meeting of the United Nations, Platon, a staff photographer for this magazine, set up a tiny studio off the floor of the General Assembly, and tried to hustle as many of them in front of his lens as possible. For months, members of the magazine’s staff had been writing letters to various governments and embassies, but the project was a five-day-long improvisation, with Platon doing his best to lure the likes of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chávez, and Muammar Qaddafi to his camera.

The results can be seen here. Click on a picture, and hear a brief commentary from the photographer, Platon: clearly a Londoner after Jamie Oliver's heart…."wicked, man." Berlusconi, Chavez, Gaddafi, Mugabe, and many more.