Legendary photographer of 1960s London and the Muslim World
Peter Sanders is the world’s pre-eminent photographer of the Muslim world. For more than 55 years, he has captured over half a million images reflecting a rich traditional civilisation filled with warmth, humanity and compassion.
He began his career in the mid 1960s as one of London’s leading rock and roll photographers, and his images of Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, among others, are today considered classics of the period. This was a springboard which led him to his early travels throughout India and then to Morocco documenting their various faiths. In 1971 he photographed the Hajj after obtaining a unique permission for a westerner at that time.
His photographs have been collected into three books, In the Shade of the Tree, Meetings with Mountains, Exemplars for Our Time, and – forthcoming – Heaven, Earth, and the Ten Thousand Things.
