Category: Barack Obama

Pete Souza announces new photography book “Obama: An Intimate Portrait”

Dunja Djudjic

Former White House photographer Pete Souza has announced a new book. Titled “Obama: An Intimate Portrait: The Historic Presidency in Photographs,” the book shows around 300 of the photographer’s favorite and most iconic images from the years of Barack Obama’s presidency. Some are the photos we’re familiar with, and some of them have never been […]

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Obama’s official portrait was taken with a Canon 5D Mark II. Trump’s with a Canon 1Ds Mark III, which is even older

Udi Tirosh

Here is an argument that may shut the race for new gear. President’s Trump’s official portrait was taken with a Canon 1Ds Mark III. Now, it’s a great camera, but it’s also almost a decade into the market. It was announced in august, 2007. President Obama’s portrait, on the other hand, was taken with a Canon 5D Mark […]

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White House photographer Pete Souza reflects on his time following President Obama

John Aldred

Jobs like White House Photographer fascinate me. It’s not that I’m particularly interested in doing that kind of work (quite the opposite, in fact). But that it’s so far removed from the type of photography that most of us do on a daily basis. There’s many different challenges. Different goals. It’s a completely different way of […]

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Photographing Obama, insights from White House photographer Pete Souza

John Aldred

Having first photographed President Obama in 2005, White House photographer Pete Souza estimates that by the time Obama’s second term is up, he will have made over two million photographs of the President. It’s difficult to imagine following and photographing the same person for eleven years.  In this video, from BBC’s Newsnight, Souza talks about […]

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Marco Rubio calls out Ted Cruz for using poorly Photoshopped image of him shaking hands with President Obama

Gannon Burgett

Despite getting lambasted for his own media mishaps, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio is on the attack after coming across a Photoshopped image being used by Ted Cruz’s campaign to show Rubio shaking hands with President Barack Obama. Using a microsite titled The Real Rubio Record, Cruz’s campaign team attempted to call out Rubio for […]

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