These are some photos of the longest serving world leaders as they were when they first took office and as they appear now. Although they have aged it wasn’t their looks that kept them in office for decades.
‘Portraits of Power’ is a photo project of Platon, a staff photographer working for The New Yorker. He took great portraits of various presidents, prime ministers, dictators… during a meeting of the United Nations in New York. Watch them, it’s interesting, and maybe you will learn some stuff…