It was when Laura Dern saw photographs of President Obama in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012, consoling families involved in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, that she first became aware of the work of Pete Souza. "The sensitivity, the compassion, the invisibility that it takes to capture those stories—that was where I really understood the gift of the White House photographer," Dern says.
Souza, who photographed both the Obama and the Reagan presidencies, is the subject of a new documentary directed by Dawn Porter, The Way I See It, which Dern and her business partner, Jayme Lemons, produced under their Jaywalker Pictures banner.
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