Guess who's shooting with a Sony a7r II camera now? Chief Official White House photographer Pete Souza.
The latest photo posted to the official White House Flickr photostream shows that Souza used the highly-regarded Sony mirrorless camera to photograph President Obama talking to Cuba President Raúl Castro in the Oval Office in mid-September.
Jay Carney, the White House Press Secretary who has taken much of the heat for the Obama Administration's less-than-open policies that have kept photographers out of major events, announced his resignation today during a press conference.
In need of some spiritual inspiration, photography style? Well you're in luck, because His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama himself has opened an Instagram account and is proving to be a fairly prolific poster.
The Obama Administration is yet again making headlines thanks to its 'closed-door' policy when it comes to anyone other than official White House photographer Pete Souza getting time to photograph the President.
This time the controversy revolves around President Obama's meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, a meeting with far-reaching political implications that everyone but Mr. Souza was yet again shut out of.
Top editors at the Associated Press slammed the White House -- or, more specifically, the Obama Administration -- last week for restricting photographers' access to the president in favor of staged "propaganda."
First Lady Michelle Obama is turning to Instragram in order to organize a meet-up/photo walk and give the world a tour of the White House gardens this weekend.
Let's not kid ourselves, when it comes to health insurance, freelance photographers are in an unfortunate situation. Despite working long hours like everyone else and managing their own business, freelance photographers don't get the same group rates that regular employees do. There is no question that buying insurance as an individual is more expensive.
Living in a tourist town like San Francisco, I have frequent opportunities to observe how people use their cameras. Inevitably, these lead to "Why, oh why?" moments in which advanced technology collides with general cluelessness.
As a followup to our post earlier today about former White House photographer Eric Draper's work, here's an interesting and relevant 17-minute-long story that aired on NPR in January of this year. It's an interview with former presidential photographers Eric Draper and Robert McNeely, who photographed the presidencies of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton (respectively).
Have you heard of Chief Official White House photographer Pete Souza's predecessor? His name is Eric Draper, and he's a photographer who spent eight years serving as George W. Bush's White House Photo Director and personal photographer.
A good number of websites are talking about the new official portrait of President Obama. It was shot in the Oval Office back on December 6th, 2012 by official White House photographer Pete Souza, whom we've written about quite a few times in the past.
Want to see whether or not your favorite photographers are following the rule of thirds when composing their shots? Programmer and photography enthusiast Alex Dergachev has created a simple browser bookmarklet that overlays RoT gridlines over any (or almost any) web photograph.
As President Obama’s four-year term in office comes to an end, TIME magazine caught up with his official photographer …
Official presidential photographers lead exciting lives. President Obama's photographer Pete Souza attends secret meetings and captures iconic photos. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's personal photographer was arrested last year after being accused of being a spy for Russia. Now Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's photographer is the latest to do something noteworthy: he defected to the United States.
Guess who joined in on the Instagram party? President Obama. While …
Last Thursday, three Georgian photographers including Irakli Gedenidze, the personal photographer of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, were arrested on …
Flickr user Alex Eylar created this humorous recreation of Pete Souza's now-iconic photo of Obama in the Situation Room during the Osama bin Laden raid.
Pete Souza's iconic photo of Obama and his national security team in the Situation Room has become extremely well known in the span of a week, so it's unlikely that any reputable media outlet would dare alter the photo in any way -- but that's exactly what one newspaper did. Orthodox Hasidic newspaper Der Tzitung has a policy of never publishing photographs of women, and decided to publish Obama's situation room photograph with Hillary Clinton and counterterrorism director Audrey Tomason Photoshopped out of the frame.
This photo might not seem very special, but it’s actually the most viewed photograph on Flickr. Since it was …
Now here’s a photograph you don’t get to shoot everyday: the White House …
Back in 2010 we featured an interesting documentary about what the life of Pete Souza — President …
The World Press Photo Foundation has announced the winners of its prestigious annual photojournalism competition, naming the World Press Photo of the Year, World Press Story of the Year, and winners of eight categories.
Commercial photography seems so glamorous and it certainly can be. But I’ve found that a few things were really bothering me over the last several years. Don’t get me wrong: I’m always crazy honored when any client anywhere chooses to hire me to photograph something for them. I realize that a client has hundreds if not thousands of choices when it comes to choosing a photographer. So I’m not bitter, I’m thankful. Always.
Of all the photographers on the 2016 US presidential election campaign trail, Clive Earle may be the youngest. The 5-year-old boy, who loads and shoots his own film, has attended and documented the rallies of the leading candidates on both sides of the aisle.
Update on 12/18/21: This video has been removed by its creator. The PBS documentary that we mentioned yesterday …