Where can I view Reuters’ photo gallery of the White House Presidential Walk of Fame plaques?
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Executive summary
The Reuters photo gallery showing images of the White House “Presidential Walk of Fame” — portraits and newly installed partisan plaques along the Colonnade — is published on Reuters’ website as a photo package accompanying its Dec. 17, 2025 coverage [1]. The gallery contains multiple Reuters images by staff photographers that have been republished across outlets and shows the portraits, the autopen image used in place of Joe Biden’s portrait, and the text of the new plaques [2] [1].
1. Where Reuters published the photos and how to find them
Reuters ran a visual package on Dec. 17, 2025 that includes several images captioned and credited to Reuters photographers (for example, Jessica Koscielniak is credited in the photo package), and that package appears as a photo gallery/photo story on Reuters’ site under the item headlined about new White House plaques attacking predecessors [1] [2]. The quickest way to view Reuters’ original gallery is to open the Reuters story “New White House plaques attack Trump’s Democratic predecessors, Bush” and use the embedded image carousel or photo gallery function on that page, where multiple images with captions are available [1].
2. What the Reuters gallery shows — the key visual elements
The Reuters photos document framed portraits of former presidents arrayed on the Colonnade, the replacement of Joe Biden’s portrait with an image of an autopen, and the freshly installed plaques beneath many portraits that carry partisan characterizations of predecessors — images and captions are included in the Reuters gallery and its photo captions describe those elements [2] [1]. Reuters’ package includes close-ups of plaques and wider shots of the colonnade that situate the installation in the West Colonnade or walkway between the Oval Office and the South Lawn, as other outlets summarized from Reuters’ reporting and photography [1] [3].
3. How other outlets used Reuters’ photographs and reporting
Major outlets — from AP and AFP to national outlets such as CBS, Sky News and People — reproduced Reuters images or used similar wire photos in their coverage of the plaques, often citing the same images or photographer credits; AP’s visual coverage and other newsrooms’ picture desks distributed images showing the plaques along the colonnade [4] [5] [6]. Reuters’ gallery therefore functions both as reporting and as a wire photo source that other news organizations relied upon when illustrating their stories about the controversy [1] [2].
4. Context and competing narratives visible in the images
The photographs in Reuters’ gallery do not just show decor; they underline the political flashpoint — critics characterize the plaques as partisan or rewriting history while the White House frames them as a “Walk of Fame” or “Wall of Fame” honoring presidents, and Reuters’ captions and accompanying story present those competing views [1] [7]. Coverage across outlets highlights how the plaques pair laudatory language for some presidents and sharp criticisms for others, and many stories note the broader debate over White House decor, historic preservation and politicization of the residence [8] [7].
5. Practical tips and reporting limits
To view the Reuters gallery directly, go to the Reuters story dated Dec. 17, 2025 that carries the photo package (the URL in the source list is the Reuters item; see p1_s4), and use the page’s photo viewer or image carousel to step through the Reuters images and captions [1]. This analysis relies on the Reuters photo package and wide syndication of those images; if additional Reuters photo sets were published subsequently or moved behind licensing pages, that would require checking Reuters’ photography or multimedia sections directly — the available sources confirm the Dec. 17 gallery and its images but do not enumerate any later galleries [1] [2].