Documentary The Way I See It recalls the Obama years with warm nostalgia through the lens of former
White House photographer and unlikely
Instagram star Pete Souza
For eight years, as the official White House photographer for
Barack Obama, Pete Souza acted as a fly on the wall. Slyly observant, always in the room where it happened, Souza captured nearly two million images of a president upholding the gravity of the office, hundreds of which course through The Way I See It, a new documentary directed by Dawn Porter, who recently made John Lewis: Good Trouble. Obama in cabinet meetings, gathering himself on the couch, embracing Michelle backstage, bowing to let a young African
American child feel hair just like his – Souza’s images often speak for themselves. So it’s perhaps surprising that in the years since Obama left office, the once-reticent Souza’s words, in the form of Instagram captions obliquely pointing to a distinct difference in decorum between two presidents, have turned attention from Souza’s camera to the man behind it.
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