Pete Souza isa best-selling author, speaker and freelance photographer based in Madison,Wisconsin. He is also Professor Emeritus of Visual Communication at OhioUniversity. Souza was the Chief Official White House Photographer for PresidentObama and the Director of the White House photo office.

His book,"Obama: An Intimate Portrait," was published by Little, Brown &Company in 2017, and debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. It is one of the best-selling photography books of all time. 

His latest book, "Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents," also debuted at #1 on theNew York Times bestseller list in October 2018. Shade is a portrait in Presidential contrasts, telling the tale of the Obama and Trump administrations through a series of visual juxtapositions. Here, more than one hundred of Souza's unforgettable images of President Obama deliver new power and meaning when framed by the tweets, news headlines, and quotes that defined the first 500 days of the Trump White House.

As a freelancer, Souza photographed two stories on assignment for NationalGeographic Magazine and three photo essays for Life Magazine. His photographs have also been published in many other magazines and newspapers around the world including on the covers of Life, Fortune, Newsweek, and U.S. News &World Report.

Souza has won numerous photojournalism awards including several times in the prestigiousPictures of the Year annual competition, the NPPA's Best of Photojournalism, and the White House News Photographers Association's yearly contest.