Christopher Anderson, the photographer whose close-ups of top White House officials were featured in a bombshell Vanity Fair article published this week, is defending his work after his portrait subjects were brutally dragged online.
“Very close-up portraiture has been a fixture in a lot of my work over the years,” Anderson told The Independent. “Particularly, political portraits that I’ve done over the years. I like the idea of penetrating the theater of politics.”
Anderson’s photographs of seven members of President Donald Trump’s inner circle, senior White House aide Stephen Miller, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, have divided people online and prompted viewers to dissect the details in their faces.
Rubio slammed the portraits on X following online mockery, stating, “It is obvious to most people that Vanity Fair deliberately manipulated pictures and reported statements without context to try and make the WH team look bad.”
And White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino lashed out at anti-Trump political action committee The Lincoln Project after it made fun of his hairstyle as, calling it a “Hitler youth ass haircut.”
