1/32President Obama farewells the White House from Marine One after Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
Life in the Whitehouse by Obama’s chief photographer
HE spent eight years with the Obama’s and now, as they leave, we bring you some of the best moments captured by Whitehouse photographer Peter Souza.
2/32Then President-elect Obama practices how he will hold his hand during the swearing in at the US Capitol on January 20, 2009. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
3/32President 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 in Washington, DC. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
4/32President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wear 3-D glasses while watching Super Bowl 43, Arizona Cardinals vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, at a Super Bowl Party in the family theater of the White House on February 1, 2009. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
5/32“The President had just met with the U.S. Olympics gymnastics team, who because of a previous commitment had missed the ceremony earlier in the year with the entire U.S. Olympic team. The President suggested to McKayla Maroney that they recreate her ‘not impressed’ photograph before they departed (November 15, 2012).” Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
6/32President Barack Obama running with Bo, the first family’s new pet dog, on March 15, 2009 at the White House in Washington, DC. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
7/32“Another snowstorm blanketed Washington for the second time in a few days. Because it was a Saturday, I hung around the White House thinking that the President might venture out in the snow with his daughters. Here they are playing in the Rose Garden in the midst of the storm on February 6, 2010.” Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
8/32“This is the first time the same child has made two appearances in the Year in Photos. But it was difficult to not again include Ella Rhodes, daughter of Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, after the President lifted her in her elephant costume that she was wearing for a Halloween event at the White House on October 30, 2015 “. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
9/32“The President’s wave aligns with a rainbow as he boards Air Force One at Norman Manley International Airport prior to departure from Kingston, Jamaica on April 9, 2015” Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
10/32“A nice way to celebrate the New Year for the President was to jump in the ocean in his native state of Hawaii. He was on his annual Christmas vacation with family and friends, and went swimming at Pyramid Rock Beach in Kaneohe Bay on January 1, 2012.”Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
11/32President Barack Obama, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and First Lady Michelle Obama talks with Prince George at Kensington Palace on April 22, 2016 in London, England. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
12/32“Despite the haphazard framing, I love the expressions on the President and one-year-old Lincoln Rose Smith as she learns to walk in the Oval Office. This moment happened when former Deputy Press Secretary Jamie Smith and her family stopped by for a departure greet and photograph with the President on April 4, 2014.” Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
13/32“The President’s daughter Malia stopped by the Oval Office one afternoon (February 23, 2015) to see her dad and, while they were talking, she wiped something from his face.” Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
14/32President Barack Obama sits with daughter Sasha during a barbecue with family and friends in celebration of his 49th birthday on the South Lawn of the White House on August 8, 2010. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
15/32President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and daughter Sasha order ice cream at Bruster’s in Panama City Beach on August 15, 2010 Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
16/32“The President holds a koala backstage prior to the G20 Welcome to Country Ceremony at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Center in Brisbane, Australia on November 15, 2014.” Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
17/32“I love looking at all the individual faces in this photograph of the President greeting children at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya (July 25, 2015).” Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
18/32President Barack Obama shares his strawberry pie with a boy during a lunch stop at Kozy Corners restaurant in Oak Harbor, Ohio on July 5, 2012. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
19/32President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama with their daughters Sasha and Malia watch the World Cup soccer game between the U.S. and Japan, from the Treaty Room office in the residence of the White House July 17, 2011 in Washington, DC. The U.S. lost to Japan in a shootout. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
20/32President Barack Obama mimics the victory pose with Usain Bolt, the fastest runner in the world in Jamaica. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
21/32President Barack Obama’s daughter Sasha hides behind the sofa as she sneaks up on him at the end of the day in the Oval Office on August 5, 2009. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
22/32President Barack Obama walk down the Colonnade with his arms around daughters Malia and Sasha at the White House in Washington DC, USA on 5 March 2009. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
23/32President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and their daughters, Sasha and Malia, sit for a family portrait in the Oval Office on December 11, 2011.Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
24/32“President Barack Obama genuinely enjoys being with kids. Here, he played a magnifying glass game with children during a visit to a pre-kindergarten classroom at the College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center in Decatur, Georgia on February 14, 2013.” Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
25/32President Barack Obama talks on the phone in the Oval Office with Speaker of the House Boehner on August 31, 2013. Vice President Joe Biden listens at right. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
26/32On a freight elevator, the Obamas with staff and secret service en route to one of the balls. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
27/32President Barack Obama and his daughters, Malia and Sasha watch on television in the Treaty Room of the White House on September 4, 2012, as First Lady Michelle Obama takes the stage to deliver her speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
28/32After 2AM, President Obama rides the elevator in the White House to the residence after a long day. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
29/32President Barack Obama pretends to be caught in Spider-Man’s web as he greets the son of a White House staffer in the Outer Oval Office on October 26, 2012. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
30/32“The President talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin after a lunch with other foreign leaders to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, France on June 6, 2014. I’m sure they were talking about a subject matter other than D-Day.” Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
31/32President Barack Obama is helped by Vermont Governor Jim Douglas to move a couch in the Oval Office on February 2, 2009. Governor Douglas met with the President about the economic recovery plan. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
32/32President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, Secretray of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton along with members of the national security team, as they receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, in Washington, DC on May 1, 2011. Picture: Pete Souza/The White House
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