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Pete Souza is an American photographer and former Chief Official White House Photographer for President Barack Obama. He was born on December 31, 1954 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. Souza graduated from Dartmouth College in 1976 with a degree in public policy. He then worked as a newspaper photographer for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune. In 1983, he became the official White House photographer for President Ronald Reagan. In 2009, Souza was appointed Chief Official White House Photographer for President Barack Obama. He documented the President's two terms in office, traveling with him to over 50 countries and capturing over two million photographs. Souza has published several books of his photographs, including "The Rise of Barack Obama" (2009), "Obama: An Intimate Portrait" (2017), and "Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents" (2018). As of 2021, Pete Souza's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.

Popular As Peter Joseph Souza
Occupation White House Photographer (1983–1989)Chief Official White House Photographer (2009–2017)
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 31 December 1954
Birthday 31 December
Birthplace New Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2019

Souza covered Obama’s arrival to the Senate in 2005 and met him for the first time on Obama's first day in the Senate. He documented Obama's time in the Senate, following him in many foreign trips, including those to Kenya, South Africa, and Russia. In the process he not only became close to Senator Obama, he ended up following his rise to the presidency. In July 2008, Souza published a bestseller photo-book The Rise of Barack Obama, featuring photographs between 2005 and 2008.

In late 2019, Pete Souza and his family moved to Madison, Wisconsin.

2017

In 2017 Souza received a book deal from Little, Brown and Company to publish a book of photos from his tenure as White House photographer titled Obama: An Intimate Portrait: The Historic Presidency in Photographs.

Upon Donald Trump's inauguration as president in 2017, Souza began sharing pictures of Obama on his Instagram account, often as critical commentary on the new administration. In April 2017, he had over one million Instagram followers, and reached two million followers in August 2018 as he continued to critique the Trump presidency through contrasting photographs of Obama. In 2018, he announced the release of a new book titled Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents, juxtaposing the Obama and Trump administrations.

2011

Souza's photograph taken at 4:06 pm on May 1, 2011, in the Situation Room during the raid on Osama bin Laden, featuring Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and others, quickly became an iconic image. It also became one of the most viewed images on Flickr.

In November 2011, Souza was included on The New Republic's list of Washington's most-powerful, least-famous people.

The Situation Room (2011) by Souza became one of the most-viewed on Flickr.

2010

In 2010, National Geographic produced a program about Souza titled The President's Photographer, which featured Souza as the main subject while also covering the previous White House photographers.

2009

Souza was an assistant professor of photojournalism at Ohio University's School of Visual Communication After the November 2008 election, he was asked to become the official White House photographer for his second time for the new President-elect Obama. On January 14, 2009, the new presidential portrait was released; it is the first time that an official presidential portrait was taken with a digital camera. A week later Souza was present at the inauguration and the following day he was the only photographer present for Obama's second swearing-in on Obama's first workday in the Oval Office.

In May 2009, Souza began using Flickr as an official conduit for releasing White House photos. The photos were initially posted with a Creative Commons Attribution license which required that the original photographers be credited. Flickr later created a new license which identified them as "United States Government Work" which does not carry any copyright restrictions.

First-term official portrait of Barack Obama, January 2009

2004

In 2004, Jeff Zeleny, now a political correspondent for CNN, asked Souza to take photographs for a project documenting Barack Obama's first year as U.S. senator.

2001

At the end of the Reagan administration, Souza continued to be based in Washington, D.C. Between 1998 and 2007, he was a photographer for the Chicago Tribune Washington, D.C., bureau. Souza has also worked as a freelancer for National Geographic and Life magazines. After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, he was among the first journalists to cover the war in Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul.

1985

Second-term official portrait of Ronald Reagan, June 1985

1970

Souza started his career in the 1970s in Kansas at the Chanute Tribune and the Hutchinson News. In the early 1980s, he was a photographer for the Chicago Sun-Times. He served as an official White House photographer for President Ronald Reagan from June 1983 until 1989. He was also the official photographer for the funeral services of Ronald Reagan in 2004.

1954

Peter Joseph Souza (born December 31, 1954) is an American photojournalist, the former Chief Official White House Photographer for U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama and the former director of the White House Photography Office. He was a photographer with The Chicago Tribune, stationed at the Washington, D.C., bureau from 1998 to 2007; during this period he also followed the rise of then-Senator Obama to the presidency.