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Digital Camera World
Hillary K. Grigonis

The internet is furious over the Vanity Fair Trump cabinet portraits. But the photographer says the goal was “to reveal something more real”

Screenshot of Vanity Fair's Instagram page, showing the controversial Trump Cabinet photos.

Celebrities and politicians are often presented to the world in heavily orchestrated, Photoshopped portraits. A photographer wanted to create a more intimate portrait of reality when photographing the Vanity Fair Trump cabinet portraits – but the internet is not happy.

This week, Vanity Fair published a series of images of White House officials captured by photographer Christopher Anderson, including White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and others.

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