Stunning moving portraits show human side of Australian politicians
Image. It's a facet of politicians that their careers have lived or died on.
It's something that is carefully-crafted with the aid of advisors, with the public rarely getting to see beyond the sheen of forced smiles and election promises.
A new photographic series called Election 2016: Our Leaders by Fairfax Media aims to cut through the masquerade that is political life, capturing the micro-expressions of the country's politicians during a nine-second shoot.
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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and opposition leader Bill Shorten participated along with eight other high-profile politicians.
Each politician was shown six images to elicit a reaction, although unfortunately we'll never find out what the images are. Nine frames were shot each second, totalling 81 frames -- giving the subjects no time to consciously alter their expressions. The portraits were posted on the Instagram pages of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
"During an election campaign, you get the sense that politicians go into a mode where their image is very crafted and manufactured," the project's creative director, Nic Walker, said in a statement emailed to Mashable Australia. "This project was all about eliciting a very human response to remind people that love or hate their ideas, politicians are people too."
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Anthony Albanese
Julie Bishop
Richard Di Natale
Tanya Plibersek
Christopher Pyne
Penny Wong
Barnaby Joyce
Nick Xenophon
Bill Shorten
Malcolm Turnbull
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