Pete Souza
Pete Souza (born December 31, 1954 in New Bedford , Massachusetts ) is an American photojournalist of Portuguese descent and former chief photographer of the White House . He began as a photographer for the US President Ronald Reagan and then worked for Barack Obama .
Life
Souza's four grandparents emigrated from the Azores to the USA at the beginning of the 20th century . Souza grew up in Dartmouth ( Bristol County, Massachusetts ). He studied communications at Boston University and earned a Masters in Journalism and Mass Media from Kansas State University . During the presidency of Ronald Reagan he accompanied him from June 1983 to 1989 as chief photographer.
He worked for the Chicago Tribune and as a freelance photojournalist for National Geographic and Life Magazine . At the beginning of the Afghan war he was one of the first journalists to report on the fall of Kabul from there. He was the official photographer during Ronald Reagan's funeral in June 2004.
Pete Souza has accompanied Barack Obama in a photo documentary since 2005, when he became US Senator for the state of Illinois in January . Among other things, he followed him on his travels through several countries and sketched him in his political ascent. With Obama's election as president, he was named chief photographer of the White House. As such, on January 13, 2009, he shot the first official presidential portrait created with a digital camera. One of the most famous of Souza's photos of Obama's presidency is Situation Room , which shows the president along with members of his security team during the Neptune's Spear military operation in which Osama bin Laden was killed. Souza's term ended with the inauguration of Donald Trump . His successor under Trump is Shealah Craighead .
Works (selection)
- Images of Greatness: An Intimate Look at the Presidency of Ronald Reagan. Chicago, Triumph Books 2004, ISBN 978-1-57243-701-2 .
- The Rise of Barack Obama. Chicago, Triumph Books 2008, ISBN 978-1-60078-163-6 .
- Barack Obama. Pictures of an Era , German by Cornelius Hartz , Prestel Verlag, Munich a. a. 2018, ISBN 978-3-7913-8433-7 .
Movies
- Obama up close - on the road with the President . Documentation, 44 min., USA, 2010.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Cavaco sabia que os meus avós eram dos Açores" - Portugal - DN. In: dn.pt. Retrieved January 26, 2014 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Bio & 124; Pete Souza Photography. In: petesouza.com. Retrieved January 26, 2014 (English).
- ↑ Pete Souza's résumé
- ↑ National Press Photographers Association: Pete Souza Named Obama's White House Photographer
- ^ Günther Haller: The historical moment - a journalistic research . In: Aglaja Przyborski, Günther Haller (Hrsg.): The political picture. Situation Room: One photo - four analyzes (= Ralf Bohnsack, Aglaja Przyborski, Jürgen Raab, Thomas Slunecko [Eds.]: Social science iconology: qualitative image and video interpretation . Volume 6 ). Verlag Barbara Budrich, Opladen / Berlin / Toronto 2014, ISBN 978-3-8474-0160-5 , p. 11–63 , here: 12 . Photo with time of recording .
- ↑ Tweet from Peter Souza regarding the end of his work in the White House . ( twitter.com [accessed January 22, 2017]).
- ↑ Olivier Laurent: Meet President Trump's Official White House Photographer. In: Time . January 27, 2017. Retrieved January 29, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Souza, Pete |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photojournalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Bedford , Massachusetts |