Pete Souza, the former Chief Official White House Photographer during the Obama administration, returned to Ohio University in March this year to present a selection of images from his time photographing the President. His images and commentary are in the 26-minute video above.
After the Trump administration decided to again ban camera from a press conference, CNN decided to get creative: the network decided to send a sketch artist instead.
Andrew Harnik is a photographer for the Associated Press who's one of the people responsible for covering the President of the United States. In this 5.5-minute episode of Format's InFrame documentary series, we get an insight into Harnik's life behind a lens trained on President Trump.
Obama White House photographer Pete Souza returned to politics this weekend. No, he didn't decide to join the Trump White House he's been mocking on Instagram, he spent the day with a different president: President Frank Underwood from the hit Netflix show "House of Cards."
The White House was criticized by the media this week for allowing a Russian press photographer into the Oval Office for President Trump's meeting with Russia’s foreign minister while the U.S. media was shut out. Now the White House is reportedly "furious" about being "trolled" with the photos by Russia, and the Russian photographer is calling the media stories "nonsense."
President Donald Trump's meeting with Russian diplomats is being heavily criticized by US photographers today. The administration's decision to lock out US media has left them open to accusations of contributing to Russian propaganda, and potentially opening itself up to espionage.
It took a lot longer than we expected—in fact, some said it would never happen—but President Trump's administration has finally given in and started uploading to the official White House Flickr account.
Compared to the previous administration, President Donald Trump's White House has been fairly anti-photography. But today, we get to see another official portrait from the Trump Administration: First Lady Melania Trump's official White House portrait.
Chuck Kennedy is a former White House Photographer and worked as Assistant Director of the White House Photo Office during the Obama Administration.
In April 2009, the Obama Administration made the historic move of uploading 293 photos to a newly minted White House Flickr feed.
Last week we reported that Shealah Craighead, a former photographer for the Bush administration and Sarah Palin's vice presidential campaign in 2008, was at the "top of the list" to be President Donald Trump's chief white house photographer. Now the appointment is official.
The importance of presidential photography cannot be understated in today’s visual world. Although the bulk of photography since the inception of regular presidential photography in the 1950s still consists of “grip and grin” photo ops, White House photographers have sought to capture a more intimate look at the leader of the free world.
Donald Trump officially became the President of the United States yesterday, and his official portrait has been published as well.
Flickr sent out a message to followers of the White House account today that says, more or less, "Say a fond farewell to Pete Souza." The account that Souza used to chronicle 8 years of the Obama Administration is changing hands. Starting today, the Trump Administration takes over.
CBS Sunday Morning aired this 5-minute segment in which President Obama and official White House photographer Pete Souza look back at 8 years of Souza's photography.
Official White House Photographer Pete Souza recently sat down with BBC Newsnight to reflect on his experience photographing President Obama. By the time Barack Obama finishes his eight years in office, Souza estimates he will have taken nearly 2 million photographs of the President.
As Barack Obama nears the end of his 8-year tenure as President of the United States, White House photographer Peta Souza has been looking back at the nearly 2 million photos he's taken of the sitting president. But Souza may have only yesterday taken his most widely-seen photo of the president... a photo he likely wishes he never had to take.
Here's a great 4-minute video by the YouTube channel society of geeks that looks at the work of official White House photographer Pete Souza.
On March 10th, 2016, I woke up with great expectations: I was heading to the White House to photograph Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and American President Barack Obama.
When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited US President Barack Obama at the White House today, one Canadian photographer had the chance to document the historic meeting thanks to a simple online application.
Photographer Pete Souza has a dream job as President Obama's official White House Photographer. Back in 2013, Souza launched an Instagram account to share his work.
Souza is now sharing a roundup of some of the best iPhone photos he has captured over the course of 2015.
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.
Today the White House announced that it has done away with a 40-year-old ban on cameras and photos in public tours. Social media, which was previously banned, has been green-lighted as well, and the White House is encouraging visitors to share photos and social media posts with the hashtag #WhiteHouseTour.
Photographer Robert Caplin of The Photo Brigade …
Photographers have long been grumbling about the FAA's tight regulations for camera drone usage, and the actions of one operator over in Washington DC aren't going to help the cause. An anonymous DJI Phantom owner and government employee crashed his DJI Phantom quadcopter on the White House lawn yesterday morning, causing a lock down of the President's residence.
Official White House photographer Pete Souza was recently interviewed by journalist Al Hunt for his "On the Story" program. In the 17-minute interview (shown above), Souza offers a glimpse into what his life is like on the front lines of world history.
We also hear the stories behind a number of Souza's most famous photographs of President Obama and President Reagan (whom he also served as official White House photographer).
Prince William visited the White House yesterday and held his first talks with President Obama. Photographers and reporters were given a special warning by the White House before entering the Oval Office and participating in the media frenzy: don't take any selfies with the president and the prince.
In response to the controversy surrounding the shooting death of Michael Brown -- and especially the differing versions of events from officer Darren Wilson and others who were at the scene -- there has been a massive call to equip police officers nationwide with body cameras.
The Brown family themselves have been outspoken on the matter, and it seems the White House was listening. In a report released yesterday, the Obama administration laid out a proposal to spend $263 million on improving law enforcement, $75 million of which will be used to equip cops with body cams.
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.
Since late 2013, the White House and the White House Press Corps have clashed several times over. We've covered this briefly in the past, but if you're still not sure what's going on, how it came to be and why exactly members of the press have gone so far as to call the administration's policies regarding press access "Orwellian," this exposé by ReasonTV may help clear things up for you.