David Carson
David Carson is a staff photojournalist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch where he has worked for more than two decades photographing news, sports and as an on-site editor for big news events, coordinating coverage of two World Series, a Super Bowl and U.S. presidential debates.
He was a member of the Post-Dispatch’s team that was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for their coverage of the social unrest in Ferguson, Missouri following the police shooting of Michael Brown. He also was a member of the newspaper’s staff that was a 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist for its coverage of a mass-shooting during a suburban city council meeting.
Previously Carson worked at the Naples Daily News in Florida, The Providence Journal-Bulletin in Rhode Island, and as a freelance photographer in New England where he worked on assignments for The New York Times, USA Today and the Associated Press, among others.