Photographer of history and the people that make it. Author, POTUS: Icons, Artifacts, and History that Shaped the American Presidency. *Coming Nov. 17, 2026*
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After years of work, I’m excited to share my new photo book, POTUS: Icons, Artifacts and History That Shaped the American Presidency, featuring artifacts from 14 presidential libraries—from FDR’s fedora to Obama’s Blackberry.
Twenty-five years after 19 hijackers perpetuated the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, we are still very much living in a post-9/11 world. September 11, 2001, transformed the world and the American presidency along with it.
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The result was two decade-long conflicts and the greatest expansion of presidential power since the Second World War.
As part of the work for my new photo book about the American presidency, I had the great fortune to photograph numerous artifacts at the George W. Bush Presidential Library pertaining to 9/11 and the subsequent War on Terror. potusphotobook.com
Peter Adams retweeted
The care that goes into maintaining the @Sept11Memorial is extraordinary. Every night, Jim Maroon and his team meticulously clean the reflecting pools so visitors can come to remember and reflect. I'm grateful for their dedication, especially as we prepare to mark 25 years since 9/11. bit.ly/46cEqzR
Herbert Hoover was the most misunderstood president of the 20th Century. Caricatured as the villain of the Great Depression, Hoover might just be the greatest humanitarian that ever lived.
Read: on.picturingpresidents.com/p…
Featuring photography from my forthcoming book: potusphotobook.com which is available for pre-order now!
This is a real disturbance in the force. If you worked in Silicon Valley over the last 25 years, Jeff and Sanjay’s programming feats were so monumental that they became a thing of legend: github.com/LRitzdorf/TheJeff…
Tomorrow will be my last day at Google after 27 years, and watching it grow from 25 people to 190,000+ has been an amazing journey. Below is a note I shared with many people internally at Google today. An excerpt is:
It has been an absolute pleasure to work with you and to help build some of the most widely used and impactful products of all time. As a kid, I dreamed of helping build software that would be used by many people, and Google now has thirteen products used by more than a billion people (amazing!). Our work has had a tremendous impact in the world, and I have been lucky enough to collaborate and form friendships with many colleagues that I deeply admire, respect, and enjoy. It still brings me joy every time I see people out in the world using our products to find information, handle email, translate documents, watch videos, learn new things, navigate and understand the physical world, browse the web, use their phone, run large-scale computations on our infrastructure, ride in an autonomous vehicle, or perform complex tasks with the help of our AI systems. I hope you all share this sense of joy, because it is a shared accomplishment! Thank you to all of my colleagues at Google over many years!
Now I'm excited to go start @DiscoLoopAI with my longtime friends and colleagues @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML, and @quocleix.
(Updated post: slightly redacted to not have some personal info)
This episode about Herbert Hoover is a must listen! My new potusphotobook.com begins with Hoover not just because he’s a fascinating figure but because I agree with @davidfrum and @MargaretHoover that he is one of the most misunderstood and important modern presidents.
The Herbert Hoover Library reopens tomorrow after substantial renovations. On new David Frum Show, I talked to the driving force behind those renovations, the 31st president's great-granddaughter, @MargaretHoover about the man and the legacy. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcas…
On July 16, 1945, members the Manhattan Project detonated the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert. At the time of the test, the effects of an atomic explosion were still largely unknown... open.substack.com/pub/pictur…
You can see more artifacts related to the Manhattan Project, the atomic bombing of Japan, and more in my new photobook: potusphotobook.com #potus
A must read.
What happens when billionaires control weapons and technologies that were once the preserve of the US government?
A new military-industrial complex is emerging, and it's changing how, and even if, we go to war.
My book, Valley of Death, is available for preorder now:
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This is a great way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and get your holiday shopping done way early. 🇺🇸🎁
Photographer Peter Adams takes readers inside the archives—and lives—of modern American presidents dating back to the 1929 presidency of Herbert Hoover.
Celebrate American history all year around with POTUS—on sale this fall! bit.ly/4whyPTN
We need to re-learn the true purpose of a presidential library. #POTUS open.substack.com/pub/pictur…
Exactly 223 years ago today, the Louisiana Purchase expanded presidential power and changed the nation forever. #POTUS #americanhistory open.substack.com/pub/pictur…
HUGE thank you to everyone who is pre-ordering my POTUS photo book right now at Amazon, B&N, and Bookshop..org! Links to order are here: potusphotobook.com
Out Nov 17. Pre-order: potusphotobook.com
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Every single word of this fantastic column by @Peggynoonannyc
‘I fear sometimes that few people really care about journalism, but we are dead without it. Someday something bad will happen, something terrible on a national scale, and the thing we’ll need most, literally to survive, is information. Reliable information—a way to get it, and then to get it to the public. That is what journalism is, getting the information. ‘
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Shame on you @SouthwestAir for changing your media policy to exclude print journalists. I just got hit for $350 in baggage overage fees because I do not work for a “broadcast network” or qualify as a “commercial film company”. Way to be anti-journalist. What a stupid policy.
This change was made six months ago. How hard would it have been to issue warnings in the first year so journalists could try to work around this idiocy. support.southwest.com/helpce…