Weekly Filet #64: Powerful Portraits of Power. And more.
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This week's top recommendation
In September 2009, British photographer Platon Antoniou had the unique chance to shoot portraits of nearly all current world leaders at the UN General Assembly. You've probably seen some of those iconic images before - Putin, Berlusconi, Obama - but going through the whole series is yet a whole 'nother experience. I've been lucky enough to see the images at an exhibition in Vienna and I'd almost say this alone is worth a travel there. The New Yorker has a nice collection of the images, along with comments by the photographer on each. Also recommended: the book with all images.
→ Portraits of Power (The New Yorker)
Further recommendations
We mustn't leave this topic to Jeff Jarvis and his sauna comparisons. Here's a more profound contribution.
→ Privacy as an ethical problem in the computer society (The European Graduate School)
Thought-provoking and amusing at the same time: A TED talk on all the many things that are all around yet invisible to us.
→ John Lloyd inventories the invisible (TED)
Stupid title, very insightful article about the challenges Obama is facing in his re-election campaign and how this team aims to use cutting-edge technology to address them.
→ Hope 2.0: Inside Obama's Campaign (Rolling Stone)
A crossing in São Paulo + buckets of colour = a little bit of magic.
→ Painting Reality São Paulo (Ignant)
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