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Peter Sanders
London born Peter Sanders began his early career by photographing the musicians that began to explode onto the music scene in the mid 1960s, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, The Doors, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, The Rolling Stones,  James Taylor, The Who, Grateful Dead and many more.

Becoming disheartened by the music industry, and becoming more interested in spiritual matters, he decided to travel east, but it was the untimely death of Jimi Hendrix that helped him begin his spiritual quest. Peter, whilst at the Isle of Wight festival in 1970, took some of the last pictures of Jimi Hendrix before he died. The sale of this material allowed him his first trip to India.

After his first seven-month journey through India, he returned to the UK, but within a short while, travelled to Morocco, spending his first month in a zawiya in Meknes during the month of Ramadan.

Within a few months, he travelled onto Saudi Arabia. Wishing to photograph the Hajj (at a time when very few western photographers had been allowed to do so), he spent two weeks ‘knocking on doors’ until someone gave him the permission he needed. These photographs were used by Paris Match, The Sunday Times and Stern.

Continually travelling for over forty years, Peter has amassed a huge collection of over a quarter of a million transparencies specialising in the Islamic World.

Books Produced: In The Shade of the Tree Art of Integration