PETE SOUZA
Best known for: being President Barack Obama’s official photographer
Pete Souza is a freelance photographer in Washington DC, and Professor Emeritus of Visual Communication at Ohio University. Souza was the Chief Official White House Photographer for President Obama and the Director of the White House photo office.
His book Obama: An Intimate Portrait was published by Little, Brown & Company in 2017, and debuted at #1 on the
New York Times bestseller list. It is one of the best-selling photography books of all time.
His new book Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents also debuted
at #1 on the New York Times
bestseller list. Shade is a portrait in presidential contrasts, telling the tale of the Obama and Trump administrations through a series of visual juxtapositions. Here, more than 100 of Souza’s unforgettable images of President Obama deliver new power and meaning when framed by the tweets, news headlines, and quotes that defined the first 500 days of the Trump White House.