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American photographer (born 1954)

Peter Joseph Souza^[2] (born December 31, 1954)^[3][4] is an American photojournalist, the former chief official White House photographer for Presidents of the United StatesRonald Reagan and Barack Obama and the former director of the White House Photography Office.^[5] He was a photographer with The Chicago Tribune, stationed at the Washington, D.C., bureau from 1998 to 2007; during this period, he also followed the rise of then-Senator Obama to the presidency.^[6][7]

Early life

Souza was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and grew up in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts,^[8] the son of a nurse and a boat mechanic.^[9] He is of Portuguese ancestry; both sets of his grandparents emigrated from the Azores.^[10]

Souza graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in public communication from Boston University and a master's degree in journa