President Barack Obama By Pete Souza

He served as an official White House photographer for President Ronald Reagan from June 1983 until Reagan left the White House in 1989. Based in Washington D.C., he worked for ten years as a photographer for the Chicago Tribune. In June 2004, he was the official photographer during the funeral services of Ronald Reagan.
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 when he was sworn in as a Democrat from Illinois in January 2005. He documented Obama's first year in the Senate, following him in many foreign trips including Kenya, South Africa, and Russia. In July 2008, Souza published a bestseller photos book "The Rise of Barack Obama," in which this year photographs were compiled.