President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey is a controversial figure at the forefront of the world's political stage.
We made this portrait in a cramped corner of a small internal studio just behind the newsdesks of Bloomberg TV. With a finite amount of time with the Turkish leader, we set up our kit before his arrival, ready to transition smoothly between lighting styles. I stood on a lighting box, at eight and a half months pregnant and returned his gaze directly.
