Pete Souza, the White House’s official photographer, has been winding down his time in the Obama administration with a series of retrospective posts on Instagram. The series has garnered a lot of media coverage, and for good reason. Souza has documented some of the president’s most intimate moments over the last eight years — playing with his daughters, sitting alone in his office — and his photography is consistently beautiful. In these waning days of the Obama era, Souza’s Instagram has served as a poignant reminder of the dramatic change that will unfold with Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday.

Few of Souza’s photos have captured that feeling — the sense that we’re all tick-ticking our way toward the top of a very high…

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