Pete Souza is a photographer, best-selling author, speaker, and Professor Emeritus of Visual Communication at Ohio University. He served as Chief Official White House Photographer and Director of the White House photo office during all eight years of the Obama administration, and he was an official White House photographer during the Reagan administration. Before that, he worked as the national photographer for the Chicago Tribune in its Washington bureau and as a freelancer for National Geographic and other publications.
Obama: An Intimate Portrait (Little, Brown and Company, 2017), with a foreword by Barack Obama, brings together more than 300 photographs from his eight years in the White House, chosen from nearly two million images. It debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. His other books include The Rise of Barack Obama (2008) and Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents (Little, Brown and Company, 2018). His work is also at the center of the documentary The Way I See It, which looks at the presidency through his photographs of Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan.
