[2] He later studied at Polytechnic of Central London and worked for G.S.Royds at the Photo de Seine studio in Paris.
In 1967 he went to the middle east on behalf of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, documenting the events in the wake of the Six-day war in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt.
His photographs were used on various album covers for artists like Suzi Quatro, Jean-Michel Jarre, Seething Wells, Benjamin Zephaniah, Billy Connolly, Big Country, Aswad or Yellowman.
Beginning in 2008 Saunders concentrated on his Hidden project, creating large format tableaux vivants („living pictures“) of the age-long fight for democracy and social justice.
Saunders aims to reproduce historic scenes but this time showing dissenters, revolutionaries, radicals and non-conformists.