Platon

I could feel his cold breath on my hand as I focused the lens, and that's how I got the truth.

The truth is that this is the cold face of power and authority in Russia.

And then he performs power for me in his chair.

Now, the LGBTQ community and the human rights community in Russia, many of their members have adopted my pictures of Putin, and they use them as a banner to show everything that they believe is wrong with power in their country.

I've been told recently that anyone in Russia who is caught circulating my pictures online in connection with human rights violations will be arrested, and they will go to jail immediately.

Whose eye is this?

Someone you love, someone you hate.

It belongs to a man who was prepared to go to jail for his beliefs, the late, great Muhammad Ali.

I said to him, Muhammad, you are the greatest.

Teach me to be great.

How can my generation be as great as your generation had to be during the civil rights era?

He couldn't speak very well because of Parkinson's.

So I had to get close, and he whispered, I have a confession to make.

What is it?

I said.

He said, I wasn't as great as I said I was.

Holy shit, I said.

That's the biggest confession I ever heard in my life.

The whole world knows you as Ali the Greatest.

And then he said, I think you misunderstand me.