The president and first lady watch the fireworks over the Mall from the roof of the White House |
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Bo the dog makes his first visit to the White House, running down the East Colonnade with President Barack Obama. Bo became the family’s pet the following month. |
Barack Obama hugs his wife Michelle in the Red Room while senior advisor Valerie Jarrett looks on |
The first lady waits as the president signs the guestbook at Prague Castle in the Czech Republic |
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Students hold out their hands to greet Obama during his visit to Dr Martin Luther King Jr charter school in New Orleans, Louisiana |
2010‘Sometimes the unexpected happens. At a cafe in Missouri, I was trying to capture patrons snapping photos of each other with the President when this guy did what wise-guys do.’ |
The president pretends to be caught in SpiderMan’s web when Nicholas Tamarin, 3, catches him outside the Oval Office. Nicholas had been trick-or-treating with his father, White House aide Nate Tamarin in the Eisenhower executive office building.‘I can never commit to calling any picture my favourite, but the president told me that this was his favourite picture of the year when he saw it hanging in the West Wing a couple of weeks later.’ |
As President was walking the Cidade de Deus favela community centre in Rio de Janeiro, a young boy reached out of a closed door and the president reached over to give him a fist bump.’ |
The Obamas talk with former presidents and first ladies before a lunch at the George W Bush Presidential Library Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Pictured, from left, are: Barbara and George Bush, Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton talks to Michelle Obama and President Obama chats with Bill Clinton and George W Bush |
The Situation Room.‘the president and vice president and the national security team monitoring the mission against Osama bin Laden. |
The Obamas stand in the cell where Nelson Mandela was held as they listen to former prisoner Ahmed Kathrada during their tour of Robben Island prison in Cape Town, South Africa |
The president helps the first lady off the stage during a state dinner for French president François Hollande on the south lawn of the White House |
The president jokes around backstage with TV presenter Jay Leno before recording The Tonight Show in Burbank, California |
Obama chats with the Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev on the Laurel Cabin patio during the G8 summit at Camp David, Maryland |
The president holds six-month-old Talia Neufeld, daughter of departing staff member Adam Neufeld, in the Oval Office |
This isn’t so much a great photograph as it was just an honour to be in the presence of World War II veteran Kenneth (Rock) Merritt as he regaled stories of D-Day to Obama aboard Marine One on the 70th French-American commemoration D-Day ceremony. The president invited ‘Rock’ to fly on the helicopter after leaving the Normandy American cemetery and memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, France.’ |
‘The president was playing golf at Torrey Pines golf course in San Diego. As he was finishing his round, he began to shake hands with guests waiting for a wedding ceremony about to begin. The bride and groom were waiting inside but when they looked out the window and saw the president, they decided to make their way outside. I made a grab shot as the bride, Stephanie, and her soon-to-be husband, Brian Tobe, came running to greet the president.’ The couple wrote to Souza to say that they were extremely grateful to have the president crash their wedding |
The president and national security advisor Susan E Rice talk on the phone with homeland security advisor Lisa Monaco to receive an update on a terrorist attack in Brussels, Belgium. The president made the call from the residence of the US chief of mission in Havana, Cuba |
Obama hugs Mari Copeny, 8, backstage at Northwestern high school in Flint, Michigan. Mari wrote a letter to the president about the Flint water crisis |
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