FALL RIVER – Former White House photographer and New Bedford native Pete Souza remembers becoming transfixed with a still photo when he was eight years old.

Little did he know the impact that photo of former Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in as president aboard a plane shortly after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination - with Jacqueline Kennedy by his side – would have on his future career.

“Even though I didn’t actually pick up a camera until I was in college, still photographs meant something to me,” Souza told O Jornal in a virtual interview from Wisconsin. “I just didn’t understand it fully at the time.”

Souza, who served as Chief Official White House Photographer for President Barack Obama for all eight years and an Official White House Photographer for President Ronald Reagan, will be coming to Bristol Community College on April 18 to talk about his life and experience as a photographer and best-selling author.