[17][18][19] From November 2016 to January 2017, Pepper's Evaporations / Испарения was shown in Rome, (Italy) at Fondazione Terzo Pilastro e Meditteraneo's, 'Museo Palazzo Cipolla'.
[23] This show is the first stop of a traveling exhibition (France, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Russia, Italy and USA) of new photographs where Pepper questions whether man's presence has inexorably altered the landscape or whether the land is in essence still close to what it was before mankind arrived.
[27][28] From 12 December 2018 to 15 February Inhabited Deserts was presented at The Empty Quarter Gallery in Dubai, U.A.E., with curatorial text by Kirill Petrin.
The exhibition was preceded by a unique Peace Conference:'The Absent Border: Conflicts and New Harmonies', a unique Peace Conference, where an Iranian desert explorer sat and discoursed with an Israeli Archeologist, a Bedouin Sheikh, a Russian Curator, an American diplomat, an Italian Curator Gianluca Marziani, an American actor Giancarlo Esposito[41] and John R.
[44] Also in 2021, Pepper participated in Bryansk International Photo Festival with 'Rome 1969 meets Sans Papier' photographs of Rome 40 years apart.
As a producer Pepper developed and brought to fruition the motion picture 'The Plague' (Albert Camus) directed by Luis Puenzo with William Hurt, Robert Duval, Raoul Julia, Sandrinne Bonnaire and Jean-Marc Barr.
[92] Pepper was the first foreign director to be invited to the Drama Theatre on Vasilievsky (aka Teatre Satir) in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Also in 2016 he opened a production of Sam Shepard's True West at Saint Petersburg Russian State Institute of Performing Arts.
[96] In 2018 Pepper directed the Italian premiere of John Patrick Shanley's Four Dogs and a Bone with an adaptation by Enrico Vanzina.