Barack Obama's Photographer Talks About Life in the White House

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The power of Barack Obama has always been in the simple reality of him. Just the sight of him—so smart, so powerful, so black—means so much to so many. And for over a decade, Pete Souza was responsible for spreading that reality around the world.
As Obama’s chief White House photographer, Souza went wherever the president went. He covered Obama in countless meetings with his advisers and when he coached his daughter's basketball team. He shot Obama’s reaction as SEAL Team Six shot Osama bin Laden, and painstakingly documented the first time the first family's dogs saw snow. He was also there to capture Jacob Philadelphia's moment—the only picture that hung in the Obama White House for the entire eight years of his presidency.
In his new book, Obama: An Intimate Portrait, Souza presents around 300 of his favorite pictures from the nearly 2 million he took during his time in the White House, as he went from just another staffer to a close family friend. "Having Pete around made my life better," Obama wrote in the book’s foreword. "Pete became more than a photographer—he became a friend, a confidant, and a brother."

I spoke to Souza about the book, his friendship with the former president, the joy of staying invisible in the White House, and being Instagram 

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