Portraiture - Platon

I have chosen to look at Platon as another photographer who has done portraiture work. For this image Platon has chosen to take the picture from a lower level. This style and technique gives the appearance of importance and in this photo is the case as the subject is Obama. (President of the United States) He (Platon) has also used this technique on other important/famous people such as Bill Clinton and Daniel Craig. In his portrait photos he uses a choice out of three backgrounds, white which isn't as common, black is used more and then sometimes Platon uses this blue and everytime I've seen it used he also uses this white around the subject before the blue, which looks to be like a halo almost. He may use this because of that effect directly and to further more enhance the fact Obama is the President along with the technique of the camera looking up towards him giving him status and show his power. On this photo Obama is looking away from the camera and i think it adds to the photo because of the appearance of his height I think it can look like he his loooking over us, his country's people sort of and I, personally, don't think the photo would have worked so well if, with this photo, he looked at the camera. Obama also has a slight grin and his arms folded which I think looks good as it could represent him being happy in his postion and his ready to do whatever is required in his job.

This image was taken by Platon and found on this site - http://bleachpr.com.au/2011/blog/semi-permanent-welcomes-platon.html