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Two Million Photos: Pete Souza Captures Obama's Presidency
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Over the past eight years only one man has had an unbridled and intimate view into the world of President Barack Obama.
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President Barack Obama bends over so the son of a White House staff member can pat his head during a visit to the Oval Office on May 8, 2009.
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Despite security concerns, the president decided to walk into the street to wave to people gathered outside the Cidade de Deus favela community center in Rio de Janeiro. As he was walking, a young boy reached out of a closed door and the president reached over to give him a fist bump on March 20, 2011.
—Pete Souza / The White House
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama hold hands as they listen to Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., during an event to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches, at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, March 7, 2015.
—Pete Souza / The White House


Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House in Washington on May 1, 2011.
—Pete Souza / The White House via AP file

President Obama pretends to be caught in Spider-Man's web as he greets Nicholas Tamarin, 3, just outside the Oval Office on Oct. 26, 2012. Spider-Man had been trick-or-treating for an early Halloween with his father, White House aide Nate Tamarin in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. \"I can never commit to calling any picture my favorite, but the president told me that this was HIS favorite picture of the year when he saw it hanging in the West Wing a couple of weeks later.\"
—Pete Souza / The White House









President Barack Obama kisses First Lady Michelle Obama for the \"Kiss Cam\" while attending the U.S. Men's Olympic basketball team's game against Brazil at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., July 16, 2012. Vice President Joe Biden and Malia Obama look up at the jumbotron.
—Pete Souza / The White House
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