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10 - Picturing Power

A Photographer’s View

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2025

By
Tom White
Edited by
Matthew Phillips  and
Naoko Shimazu
Matthew Phillips
Affiliation:
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK
Naoko Shimazu
Affiliation:
University of Tokyo
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Summary

This chapter provides a practitioner’s point of view on diplomatic images. The author is positioned to give a unique perspective as a freelance photographer who is currently based in Singapore, which has recently become a significant city-state for major global diplomatic events. Through his first-hand experiences of covering high-profile international diplomatic events, such as the 2018 Trump-Kim Summit held in Singapore, the author takes us backstage and demonstrates how famous diplomatic images are produced to represent the affective register of the moment. In so doing, the chapter illuminates the situational context of the photographer in taking diplomatic images, offering insight into the editorial process in which diplomatic images are produced by the media.

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Trump-Kim SummitAung San Suu KyidiplomacyRichard NixonNikita KhrushchevphotojournalismmediaSingaporeMyanmarCold WarElliot ErwinLee Kuan Yew
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Cold War Asia
A Visual History of Global Diplomacy
 , pp. 210 - 233
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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