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The President shows off his dance moves as he and the First Lady waited backstage during an intermission of daughter Sasha’s dance recital at Strathmore Arts Center in North Bethesda, Maryland.
There’s a time to mourn and a time to dance and official White House photographer Pete Souza has captured President Obama doing both.
Souza released his “Year in Photos 2013” on Flickr Tuesday, highlighting his favorite shots among the thousands of pictures he snaps of the Obamas in action.
Priding himself on having a “small footprint” as he tracks the first family, Souza’s top selections include behind the scenes shots like the President sharing a tender moment with daughter Sasha in June at her dance recital.
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Bo was just hanging out in the Outer Oval Office when the President walked in to begin his day.
Other highlights show the President giving first dog, Bo, the evil eye while the pooch was perched outside the Oval Office in November and another comically shows the President and First Lady before a crowd…of smartphones (or rather throngs of guests at a White House Christmas reception observing the moment through the lens of their personal technology.)
But it’s not all lighthearted for the Commander in Chief, who comforted the nation during the devastations of the Boston Marathon bombings in April, the West, Texas explosion and the May tornado in Moore, Oklahoma.
Souza’s images also show the President trying to manage the political impasse with Congress and memoirs from his journeys abroad.
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Pete Souza/The White House
Everyone has a smart phone. The President delivers remarks with the First Lady during a Christmas reception in the Grand Foyer of the White House.
Obama’s official photographer, who is also the Director of the White House photo office, estimates that he takes an average of 500 to 1000 pictures a day.
Souza’s digital photo collection has become an annual tradition since the President assumed office in 2009.
But the 2013 edition is likely to not receive the same amount of attention, given the controversy over Souza’s unfettered access to Obama.
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Pete Souza/The White House
The President pauses for a moment of silence in honor of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings.
With the press blocked from photographing the President at some public events, the media must rely on distributed images taken by Souza and photojournalists in the White House Press Corp have likened the administration-approved images to propaganda.
“The official photographs the White House hands out are but visual news releases,” Santiago Lyon, director of photography at The Associated Press, wrote in a New York Times editorial in December.
“Until the White House revisits its draconian restrictions on photojournalists’ access to the president, information-savvy citizens, too, would be wise to treat those handout photos for what they are: propaganda,” he concluded.
USA Today, the Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times are among the news organizations who have said they try to avoid publishing Souza’s images in protest.
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