Brendan Smialowski is a photojournalist for Agence France-Presse since 2012. He has been covering Washington, D.C. politics and events since 2003 including 4 presidents and 2 wars. Many of his works have gone viral, most recently his photo of Bernie Sanders wearing mittens at Joe Biden’s Presidential Inauguration this past January.

We had a fun and wide ranging conversation covering Brendans start in photo journalism from high school on, what it’s been like covering 4 presidents, his recent trip with President Joe Biden when he met with Vladimir Putin, behind the scenes insight into his many viral photos and how they came to be, how he tries to tell a story with his photos, what it was like being at the insurrection at the capitol, capturing the photo of Former President Donald Trump & Kim Jong-un at the Demilitarized Zone, first hand accounts of many historical moments in our countries history and so much more!