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Photographing the president
Ben Smith's Blog —
Obama just chose a White House photographer, Pete Souza, an experienced photojournalist who will be a not insignificant part of the imagemaking apparatus.
He's already published a volume of Obama photography, above, and some examples of his style, some intimate, some iconic, are on his website.
Souza to be White House photographer
The Swamp —
... White House press secretary and someone who has dealt with Souza since 2005. "The White House is lucky to have him back again."
Souza first met Obama in January 2005 when the now president-elect was being sworn into office as the junior senator from Illinois. He documented Obama's first year in office as part of a multi-part series for the Tribune that included trips to Africa and Russia.
Souza later compiled the photos in a best selling book called "The Rise of Barack Obama."
Souza named photographer-in-chief
Majikthise —
The White House has chosen photojournalist Pete Souza to be its top photographer. Souza held the same post under Ronald Reagan. Image galleries from Souza's official website: The Rise of Barack Obama, The Road to Kabul, and Portrait of a President. Normally, I'm skeptical of Reagan retreads, but Souza's work speaks for itself. I admire the simplicity of his compositions. He's very good at abstracting away visual clutter in order to let the basic outlines of his subjects dominate the composition. Souza's website doesn't allow me to link to ...
Obama in HD
techPresident —
... is Ronald Reagan's former photographer, who worked as a photojournalist at the Chicago Tribune for a number of years. Souza's been photographing Obama since he arrived in the Senate in 2005, but he rushed to print a photo collection called "The Rise of Barack Obama" when it became clear his subject was a presidential front runner. The book hints at what we might expect from Souza's documentation of Obama in the years ahead: shots of ...
This Week's Podcast Interview: New White House Photographer Pete Souza
Political Punch —
... . By the late 1980s, Souza had become an official White House photographer for President Ronald Reagan during his second term. Souza met President-elect Obama on his first day in Senate in January 2005 and he shadowed the lanky Illinoisan for his first year, a task that led to his book "The Rise of Barack Obama." This week, Souza was officially named the official chief White House photographer. We spoke with him for the ABC News Shuffle podcast which you can hear on ABCNews.com and iTunes. The podcast was produced by Sunlen Miller and Huma Khan. Souza and I talked about a ...
