In The Shade Of the Tree , A Photographic Odyssey through Muslim By: Peter Sanders

Description

In the Shade of the Tree is the result of many years of painstaking observation of shade. The word photographer literally means “one who writes with light.” The photographer of this volume has been “capturing shade” for decades. Shade is a sign of God. The Quran says: “Have you not considered your Lord, how He extends the shade, and had He willed He would have made it still? Then We made the sun its guide, then We withdraw it unto Us gradually.”

Shade is an admixture of light and darkness. The cosmos is a shadow of the Reality, and Peter Sanders has spent a lifetime reflecting on it. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then these pictures are a testimony to the beauty in Sanders’ eye.

He uses an odd yet wondrous mechanical device that captures for one brief moment a glimpse of beauty. The pictures in this book, while only brief moments of shade written in light captured by his discerning eye, will linger on in your memory long after you have closed the book.

About the Author

Peter Sanders began his career in the 1960s as one of London’s leading photographers of rock musicians. His pictures of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, the Rolling Stones, The Who and many others performing are classics of the genre.

In the late 1960s Sanders embarked on a spiritual journey that would take him to India and North Africa and then, in 1971 to the Holy City of Makkah where he photographed the Hajj, at a time when few professional photographers had access to Islam’s holiest sanctuary. Since then he has several times been granted special access to photograph the protected cities of Makkah and Madinah.

His empathy with both spiritual masters and ordinary people has opened many doors, allowing him to be the first person to photograph many great Muslim scholars. Having travelled far and wide, Peter Sanders has built up an archive of photographs that are in great demand from publishers and media houses around the world.