The Guardian | ‘He sent someone to intimidate me’: Christopher Anderson, the photographer who shot Jeffrey Epstein by Graeme Green
A new book collects the acclaimed photojournalist’s images of everything from conflict zones to Donald Trump’s inner circle. He describes how his pursuit of truth even led to an unsettling encounter with the disgraced financier
It didn’t come as a great shock to Christopher Anderson to find out that his name was in the Epstein files. In 2015, he was assigned by New York magazine to photograph the American financier for a planned profile interview by the American journalist Michael Wolff.
“I didn’t know who Jeffrey Epstein was at all,” says Anderson. He admits that he often didn’t research the people he was photographing, and went into the job unaware that Epstein was a child sex offender who had been convicted in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from a minor, and had served 13 months in a Palm Beach County jail in Florida. “What I knew was that this guy is a rich and powerful man connected to rich and powerful men.”
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A new book collects the acclaimed photojournalist’s images of everything from conflict zones to Donald Trump’s inner circle. He describes how his pursuit of truth even led to an unsettling encounter with the disgraced financier
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"You know, it's reminded me that one of the things that authoritarian[ism] scholars always note is how much imagery is important for the projection of power and dominance. And so anything that rips that mask off, right, is is going to be, you know, threatening to the regime."
The mouthpiece with the artificial touched-up lips: a powerful symbol.
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"I think that those pictures just grabbed people's attention because they revealed something as good art and [what] good journalism does, right? They revealed that behind the facade there is an ugliness, right? And and that this is who these people are and we ought to literally look that in the face."
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He was accused of deliberately publishing candid photos of political celebrities to make them look bad.
He replied that of course he didn't airbrush these photos because he doesn't do that, has never done that. This is journalism. He's doing what photojournalists do.
Du Mez links the hostility of the Trump regime and its supporters to the photos to authoritarianism:
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"And so it's a it's a just zoomed-in shot of her face and her mouth. And you can see all the little injections where she gets her lip filler, right? …
And she's actually quite young, right? She's late 20s, I think. So anyway, that became the topic of conversation…."
Du Mez notes that Anderson was interviewed and asked why he didn't touch up the photos.
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