Skip Peterson is a widely recognized photographer who recently retired after a 33-year career at the Dayton Daily News.  Peterson was chief photographer and photo editor of the newspaper for the last 24 years,

People and moments define Peterson’s work.  Bringing a unique view to the common place sets his work apart;  Skip's photography evokes emotion and style with composition, design, and lighting.  He is a documentarian, who also feels at home shooting illustrative work.

A graduate of Ohio University with a degree in journalism, Peterson was the lead photographer and photo editor on the project Military Medicine; Unnecessary Danger, which received the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1998.    He has also won awards from the National Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year, Ohio News Photographers Association (ONPA), Associated Press, SPJ and the APME.  He was awarded First in Sports Feature in the 1985 NPPA/University of Missouri Pictures of the Year, and was awarded the Ohio Understanding Award for documentary photojournalism. 

Peterson also received the Robert Carson Award from the ONPA for outstanding contributions to photojournalism. During his 33-year career, Peterson has covered Super Bowls, World Series, the NCAA basketball championships, produced a six-month documentary, The Faces of Hard Times, and spent 3 months covering various Olympic trials and the Olympic Games in Atlanta. He was a contract photographer for the book America 24/7.

In addition to hundreds of newspapers across the US, his work has appeared in LIFE, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Car Collector, Ohio 24/7 and 5 volumes of the Best of Photojournalism.  Peterson has judged the White House News Photographers Association annual contest, along with many other state and regional photo contests.  He has served on the board of directors and executive committees of both national and state photography associations, taught photojournalism at the University of Dayton for nine years and has led workshops on photography and photo editing throughout the Midwest.