Description
Discover the rich tapestry of British Muslim life through the lens of world-renowned photographer Peter Sanders, as we explore his acclaimed work The Art of Integration: Islam in Our Green and Pleasant Land.
This event offers a powerful visual narrative that challenges stereotypes and celebrates the everyday lives, contributions, and spiritual depth of Muslims in the United Kingdom. Through compelling imagery and storytelling, The Art of Integration presents a side of British society often overlooked – one where faith and identity harmoniously coexist within the broader national landscape.
An inspiring encounter with photography, identity, and the power of visual storytelling to foster greater understanding.
About the Speaker
Peter Sanders
Peter Sanders began his career in the mid 1960s photographing the rock n’ roll icons and documenting the culture of that time. In 1970, he set off for India, cameras in hand travelling for seven months. This trip became a spiritual odyssey that led him onto Morocco and thereafter to the Holy cities of Makkah and Madinah, where he photographed the Hajj, at a time when few professional photographers had access to Islam’s holiest sanctuaries. During the following fifty years he has travelled extensively around the world documenting societies and cultures often hidden from view.
Amongst his published works are: Meetings With Mountains Encounters With the Saints and Sages of the Islamic World, Exemplars (with Michael Sugich) and in 2024 he launched Heaven, Earth and The Ten Thousand Things at the Bradford Literature Festival. Through exhibitions, the Art of Seeing workshops, presentations and his photographic books he encourages broader and deeper interactions between people of different races and faith.
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