Pete Souza, Reagan and Obama’s White House Photographer | Design Matters

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🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Pete Souza has taken some iconic photographs. A former Chief Official White House Photographer for both U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan AND Barack Obama, Pete’s career has taken him from teaching basic photography in Kansas to taking pictures for National Geographic, Life Magazine, and other dream outlets. In this episode, he talks about carrying out a vision for a project, how he built his unique path in the field, and why he sticks to the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. This is an episode of Design Matters with Debbie Millman, another podcast from the TED Audio Collective. For more conversations on how incredibly creative people design their careers and lives, follow Design Matters wherever you’re listening to this.

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0:00.0	Have you listened to Talk Radio recently?
0:03.3	Let's talk about this war on white people.
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0:10.0	I'm Katie Thornton, host of the divided dial,
0:13.1	a new five-part series from WNMC's On the Media,
0:16.8	about how the American right came to dominate Talk Radio,
0:21.1	and how one company is launching a conservative media empire
0:25.2	from the airwaves.
0:26.6	Listen every Tuesday and on the media feed.
0:30.1	Hey, it's Stephen here.
0:31.3	We're taking a short break for the next couple of weeks,
0:34.3	but in the meantime, we wanted to suggest something
0:36.8	that you might enjoy.
0:38.3	An episode of Design Matters, another show
0:41.3	in the Ted Audio Collective.
0:43.2	It's hosted by Debbie Milman.
0:45.2	I've really enjoyed the conversations we've had on this show
0:47.7	recently with creatives like Mike Shore and Jennifer Egan.
0:51.7	And Debbie is so gifted at these kinds of conversations.
0:55.6	She sits down with all kinds of creative people,
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