...A GIFT FROM GOD

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.....A   GIFT  FROM  GOD  (Part  1)

 "My photography has always been an extension of my life. Photography is a wonderful process - a gift from God - that has allowed me to learn so much about myself and the world around me. Its' like chasing a moment, trying to capture a beautiful bird in flight." Peter Sanders.
 "Peter's photographs are extremely, extraordinarily beautiful", claims Japanese Art Critic, Tsuyoshi Kawasoe.
 Peter Sanders was born in London in 1946. His professional career in photography began during the mid-sixties where he photographed most of the major stars in the music industry including Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Rolling  Stones etc. Towards the end of 1970's, Sanders attention turned inward which set him on a spiritual search to India and then eventually to the Muslim world where the spiritual beauty of Islam left an indelible impression upon him.
"Having photographed almost every famous person in the music industry I got bored and started getting in to spiritual things. I just wanted something else, and so I decided to go to India. I packed everything up and went, looking for a teacher. Eventually I found one, who was basically a Hindu but had a lot of what we consider 'Muslim qualities'. I studied with him for about six months and when I came back to England, some of my friends had become Muslim. Then there were other friends who had gotten heavy into drugs and alcohol. It was as if God was saying to me,"which direction do you want to go?"
He soon embraced Islam and was given the name Abd al-Adheem. In 1971 he was granted the unique opportunity to photograph the rituals of Hajj to Mekah. These images appeared in the Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer, among many other major journals in recognition of their rareness.
For Peter Sanders, faith and photography have both been part of his spiritual development. It was his search to capture the essence of reality that led him to Islam and, with camera in hand, to the door of Kaabah. From photographing the most famous of idols in the music industry to the most sacred places in the Islamic world, Peter Sanders' journey encompasses more than a change of focus for his camera lens.
 

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