David Charles Peterson is an American photographer and journalist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1987.
Peterson also shared the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for Community Service with two other staff members of the Des Moines Register.
In 1975 he became the staff photographer at the Topeka Capital-Journal, after two years he switched to the Des Moines Register.
[2] The chronicle depicted the tragedy of a family forced to sell their land, a deserted town, and a woman, visiting her husband's grave after his suicide.
In 1987 Peterson was chosen by jurors of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for ‘depicting the shattered dreams of American farmers’.