Karoline Leavitt Vanity Fair photographer defends his extreme close-up

Christopher Anderson, the photographer who shot a series of portraits of White House leaders for Vanity Fair has defended his extreme close-up style in an interview with The Independent.

“Very close-up portraiture has been a fixture in a lot of my work over the years,” Anderson told the outlet.  

“Particularly, political portraits that I’ve done over the years. I like the idea of penetrating the theater of politics,” he added.

The portraits came as part of a series in Vanity Fair about the first year of the President Donald Trump’s second term in office.

The series includes images of Vice President JD Vance, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the Director of Presidential Personnel Office Dan Scavino and the Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative, Political and Public Affairs, James Blair.

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