Photographer Who Took Viral White House Photos of Karoline Leavitt & Others Reveals Why They Chose Those Pics, If They're 'Trying to Make People Look Bad'
By now, you might’ve seen the photos from Vanity Fair‘s profile of Susie Wiles and White House staffers.
Included in the piece, which revealed some big revelations, were close up portraits of Karoline Leavitt, JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, and others. The photos are not very forgiving and show lines, wrinkles, unusual expressions, makeup caking, and more. They’ve since gone viral, and you can see them on Vanity Fair’s Instagram.
The photographer who took the pictures, Christopher Anderson, is now speaking out about the portraits.
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“Very close-up portraiture has been a fixture in a lot of my work over the year. Particularly, political portraits that I’ve done over the years. I like the idea of penetrating the theater of politics,” he told The Independent.
He added, “I know there’s a lot to be made with, ‘Oh, he intentionally is trying to make people look bad’ and that kind of thing – that’s not the case. If you look at my photograph work, I’ve done a lot of close-ups in the same style with people of all political stripes.”
About Karoline‘s infamous photo, which possibly went the most viral of them all, he said he “found it interesting to be even closer” to her.
About why they chose these specific images, he said they “were chosen based on what looked best for each person.”
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