This is a photo montage by Peter Kennard which depicts the MP/former prime minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair holding a mobile phone up to take a selfie of himself with an explosion in the background whilst laughing. The photo shows a connection between the artists feelings about politics and his feelings towards Tony Blair and the then current issues within the government and bombings in Afghanistan. Overall the image creates a feeling of mixed emotions as it is meant to be humorous however it has a serious meaning to it that Tony Blair was dropping bombs left right and centre to take out the Taliban in Afghanistan at the time.
This is a piece by the mystery artist Banksy which shows a homeless man sat with a cardboard sign saying ‘keep your coins, I WANT CHANGE’. Again, this piece is about connecting the artists feelings towards politics and communicating his message through graffiti on walls. Banksy is very mysterious and no one actually knows his true identity, in comparison, he likes to create a feeling of questioning his work so the viewer leaves thinking about his statement within his piece, more often than not a political issue, more recently he produced a huge wall mural in response to Brexit which evoked lots of issues as it shows someone removing a star from the EU flag as we prepare to leave the EU.
This is a picture of the Former US president Barack Obama, taken by the famous photographer Platon who takes Images of celebrities and people with power in the government. He does this to capture their personalities through the lens by using very close up images with a 35mm film camera. The amount of detail produced by using this method of photography makes Platon able to produce very large-scale photos/murals. Platon likes to tell a story through his photos, for example in the Netflix series Absract, he visited a hospital with lots of women who had all gone through a sexual trauma of some kind, creating lots of feelings to the viewers of the photos to capture their message.
http://platonphoto.com/gallery/portraits/politics/barackobama/