Daniel Torok

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Daniel Torok
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Torok in 2025
Chief Official White House Photographer
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 20, 2025
Military service
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Branch/serviceFlag of the United States Coast Guard.svg  United States Coast Guard

Daniel Torok is an American photographer and filmmaker. He is serving as the chief official White House photographer since 2025, during the second presidency of Donald Trump.

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Biography

Torok is a native of New York. [1] Prior to his career in media creation, in 2004, he served in the United States Coast Guard. [2]

Torok was a filmmaker before he became a photographer. In 2012, he cast the music video for the song "Same Love" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. [3] The next year, he directed a documentary film titled The Otherside about the Seattle hip-hop scene. [2]

In 2025, he became the chief official White House photographer under United States president Donald Trump. Trump's inaugural portrait was Torok's first time using studio lighting. [4] Torok took inspiration for the inaugural portrait from Trump's 2023 mug shot [5] and lit Trump from below to make use of catch light. [6] Torok also took Trump's presidential portrait in June 2025. [7] [8]

References

  1. ↑ "SSP Analysis: Reflections on Presidential Portraits as Trump and Vance Make Theirs Official". South Shore Press. Retrieved 29 August 2025.
  2. 1 2 Growcoot, Matt (24 January 2025). "Who is Daniel Torok? Trump's New White House Photographer". PetaPixel . Archived from the original on 12 February 2025. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
  3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlVBg7_08n0&t=3s
  4. ↑ Growcoot, Matt (21 January 2025). "Photographers React to Donald Trump's 'Wildly Edited' Official Portrait". PetaPixel . Archived from the original on 1 February 2025. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
  5. ↑ "Decoding Donald Trump's new official portrait". BBC News . 17 January 2025. Archived from the original on 30 January 2025. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
  6. ↑ Thomas, Eric (24 January 2025). "From Eisenhower's swivel to Trump's glare, presidential portraits strike different poses • Kansas Reflector". Kansas Reflector. Archived from the original on 10 February 2025. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
  7. ↑ Aton, Francesca (4 June 2025). "The White House Drops a New Presidential Portrait of Donald Trump". ARTnews.com. Archived from the original on 4 June 2025. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
  8. ↑ "Trump's fresh White House portrait sparks interest amid controversy over National Portrait Gallery leadership". FOX News. 3 June 2025. Archived from the original on 12 July 2025. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
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