Flickr's White House pictures?

Wasn't sure if this is the correct sub-forum to ask this, but does anyone know what is up with the lack of ANY photos on the official Flickr feed for the White House? I know they moved all of Pete Souza's stuff from the previous administration, but I figured now that the new official White House photographer has been "on the job" for over a month that there'd be some photos.
I'm sort of intrigued as Souza has left some pretty big shoes to fill.
Thoughts?

The White House photographer is a contracted position by the White House. If the president wants a photographer, he (that is, someone in his staff) contracts one as a "government contractor." He gets a 1099 each year.

That's why the White House photographer continues to own the copyright to his work, btw.

My thought is why would they go through the trouble of hiring an official photographer and then not publish any images?

She wont be around much longer if she's not allowed to publish anything....

In fact, in Souza's interviews on NPR and elsewhere, he specifically said that his goal was to blend into the background and capture history as it happened. Basically get well out of the way and be a fly on the wall, as it were.

Folks, this thread was pruned, nearly to death, to remove the political comments. As I've said before, stay on the photography and off the politics.

Thanks.

T.D.
Moderator

T.D. wrote in post #18300183
Folks, this thread was pruned, nearly to death, to remove the political comments. As I've said before, stay on the photography and off the politics.

Thanks.

T.D.
Moderator

You might as well just purge the thread, because you can't say much of anything about this without veering in to political territory. What's left barely touches on the actual question.

Colorblinded wrote in post #18300580
You might as well just purge the thread, because you can't say much of anything about this without veering in to political territory. What's left barely touches on the actual question.

You could talk about the work. Pete was also Regans photographer during Regans 2nd term.

When I was in the Marines some years back politicians change but we still had a job to do so I would imagine that Pete is kind of like that. He is doing his job and it really doesn't change if it is right or left or down the middle. I think he feels privileged to be a first hand witness to history.

Colorblinded wrote in post #18300580
You might as well just purge the thread, because you can't say much of anything about this without veering in to political territory. What's left barely touches on the actual question.

My thoughts exactly. No one here is well enough connected to answer the OP's question with facts. We can only suggest possibly relevant differences between the two presidents or the two photographers. If the mods deemed the replies too political, I wish they'd intervened earlier. I tried to keep my deleted posts politically neutral.

airfrogusmc wrote in post #18300685
You could talk about the work.

I bet we will if the Flickr stream resumes. Comparisons with Souza's will be inevitable. But then the danger of "talking politics" will reappear.

Is there a link to the Flickr White House location without any pic's there (yet)?

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https://www.facebook.c​om …album_id=127819​2468916857
Shealah Craighead WH photographer

Dave3222 wrote in post #18300774
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https://www.facebook.c​om …album_id=127819​2468916857
Shealah Craighead WH photographer

My gosh, is the one in the upper right corner the full shot? Couldn't she have got farther back or stood a few steps to the right?

EDIT: Afterthought. Maybe the best ones are being saved for a different venue from Facebook.

Dave3222 wrote in post #18300774
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https://www.facebook.c​om …album_id=127819​2468916857
Shealah Craighead WH photographer

Thank you, but I do not have a facebook account......

I was hoping to be able to go straight to flickr.

Dave3222 wrote in post #18300774
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https://www.facebook.c​om …album_id=127819​2468916857
Shealah Craighead WH photographer

They look like smartphone snapshots.