Peter Sanders began his career photographing the music icons of the 1960s. He was amongst the first Europeans to photograph the Hajj in 1971 and has continued to travel internationally, giving presentations and undertaking international photographic workshops. In the last five years, he has published, Meetings with Mountains: Encounters with the Saints and Sages of the Islamic World, Exemplars for Our Time, a collaboration with Michael Sugich and finally this year, Heaven, Earth and The Ten Thousand Things: the Lives of the Muslims of China. He has also launched a large retrospective photographic exhibition in Ithra Gallery, Saudi Arabia. Sanders continues to act as a translator of Islam to those interested in acquiring a greater understanding and to encourage broader and deeper interactions between people of different races and faiths.