From Reagan to Trump - The NYT-Photographer’s Iconic Pictures

With a shutter speed of eight thousandths of a second, The New York Times’ Doug Mills captured a bullet streaking past Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The photograph has been described as a “one in a million” shot, but this is far from the only iconic image the experienced press photographer has captured!

As a photographer for United Press International and Associated Press, and later for the New York Times, Mills has documented presidential campaigns through five decades, from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump’s last campaign. Through his work Doug has earned great trust in The White House, regardless of who lives there. As the only photographer granted such access, Mills followed President Trump for 18 hours on the day of the inauguration in January.

Mills has covered politics and sports since 1983, and has won a number of awards for his work, including two Pulitzer Prices. To the Nordic Media Days, Mills brings a collection of the most important photographs from his career covering politics. How do you keep taking interesting shots of some of the most well-documented people there is? What role does press photography play in today’s political coverage, and how has this changed over the years?