How did shooting a movie star pretending to be the president compare to shooting a real president? Kevin encountered some high school kids throwing a football around and tossing a Frisbee, and he just joined in. I suggested going to the National Mall so we could have the U.S. The idea was to just show up at these locations and document whatever happened. I suggested some locations but there were several people involved in the final location choices. Was there a shot list? Or did they want you to approach the shoot like you would with President Obama? She told me her idea and asked if I’d be interested. Kevin Spacey’s publicist called me out of the blue. How did this gig come about? Were you surprised to be approached by the production company? The series has its Season 5 premiere on May 30, 2017. Most recently, Souza was hired to shoot some promotional images for Netflix’s acclaimed series House of Cards with fictional President Frank Underwood played by Kevin Spacey. His upcoming book, Obama: An Intimate Portrait: The Historic Presidency in Photographs, will be released this November. During that time, not only did he take arguably the most complete photographic record of a president, he also played a role in rolling out the White House Flickr feed (now archived) and Instagram account ( A number of end-of-term retrospectives helped boost awareness of Souza’s work, and he now boasts 1.4 million followers on Instagram ( where he regularly trolls uses his images to provide photographic commentary of, um, current events. ![]() For eight years, Pete Souza served as White House Chief Photographer for President Barack Obama.
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