Obama Through the Years: Photos of the Person Behind the President

Pete Souza, the White House photographer, has captured minute details of Barack Obama’s presidency.

President Barack Obama with his pet dog at the White House. (Photo Courtesy: Instagram/Pete Souza)

We've seen a great many photos of President Barack Obama’s eight years in the White House.

Pete Souza, the man behind the camera, has followed Obama like a shadow to capture really important moments in the White House and has managed to document the person behind the president.

The White House photographer, who has taken over 2 million photos of Obama during his term as the president, told NBC News:

He’s still the same person that you see in public. I think my photographs really bring out who he is. I look at at my work as trying to create the best body of photographs that I can of this administration and this president.

(With inputs from NBC News)