Category: Pete Souza

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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Pete Souza uses his Instagram account to subtly mock Donald Trump

Dunja Djudjic

When Barrack Obama left the White House after eight years, his photographer Pete Souza left as well. The new US President has a new official photographer, and Souza has stayed faithful to Obama. After Trump’s inauguration, Souza began using his personal Instagram account to keep portraying Obama in positive light. But there’s more. He also […]

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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 the President; A look inside Pete Souza’s camera bag

John Aldred

While many will be preparing their own camera bags right now and getting ready to record the evening’s festivities and celebrate American history, one photographer captures American history-in-the-making on an almost daily basis. That photographer is Pete Souza, who has followed President Obama with his cameras since 2005. By the end of Obama’s tenure, Souza believes he will have […]

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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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White House Photographer’s Best iPhone Photos of 2015

Liron Samuels

President Obama’s official photographer, Pete Souza, released his ‘Year on Instagram’ collection featuring only square format photos taken on his iPhone. As you’d expect, the collection does not include formal photos with world leaders and such, instead it offers a behind-the-scenes look of daily events at the White House as well as on the president’s […]

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Has the White House photographer ditched DSLR in favor of Sony’s mirrorless a7R II?

Liron Samuels

Many oohs and ahhs were heard when Sony announced the a7R II, and it turns out that one of the camera’s new users is none other than the Chief Official White House photographer Pete Souza. The EXIF data belonging to the latest photo uploaded to the official White House Flickr account, one of President Obama […]

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