Everyday, thousands of photographs are taken; whether it’s by professional photographers or your everyday iPhone user. Most photographs are never seen and some are. The ones that are viewed by millions of people sometimes merit to be regarded as one of the best photographs ever taken. Pete Souza, a former Chief Official White House Photographer had the privilege of being the photographer during Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama’s presidencies. Throughout his 8 years with Obama, he took almost 2 million photographs. Many photographs show what a citizen would never see. In one photograph, White House staff are seen during Operation Neptune Spear. The emotions seen in this photograph are the visual proof that Osama Bin Laden was killed. In the photograph taken by Souza, there are 13 White House staff including President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. The staff are part of the National Security Council. Other staff can be seen but their faces are not in the frame. The National Security Council here are seen in “The Situation Room.” Pictured next to Obama is Brigadier Marshall Webb, Assistant Commanding General of Joint Special Operations Command. Everyone pictured except Webb is seen looking at a screen that we can’t see. In an interview Pete Souza had with Terry Gross, Souza state: “And the …show more content…
To release a picture of a corpse to the public would be horrifying to some people. For the President to announce that Bin Laden was killed wouldn’t be enough, there needed to be proof. A picture in “The Situation Room” showing the emotions who helped lead the mission is proof that he was