On January 14, 2009, the Obama Transition team released the first official portrait for President Barack Obama. The photograph was taken by Pete Souza, the newly announced official White House photographer. It was the first time that an official presidential portrait was taken with a digital camera.

Senator Barack Obama speaks with the crowd at a campaign stop during the presidential election of 2008. Obama was often on the campaign trial in casual clothes and frequently spoke directly to voters, two things which contributed to his appeal to everyday Americans. 

When President Barack Obama moved into the White House, it became livelier than it had been in decades. With Obama came, from left, daughter Sasha, wife Michelle, daughter Malia, and mother-in-law Marian Robinson (not pictured).  This official family portrait was taken by Annie Leibovitz.

On the 50th anniversary of the violent clashes between civil rights activists and police in Selma, President Obama, his family, and civil rights supporters marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. 

President Obama and his advisors talk with negotiators in Switzerland from the situation room. 

President Obama and his family greet Pope Francis as he arrives at Joint Base Andrews. 

President Obama greets enthusiastic crowds after his speech in Nairobi, Kenya.
 

When President Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes brought his daughter Ella by for a visit, the president got down on her level to meet her.