About

Guy Peterson is a British freelance photojournalist based in Erbil, Iraq. He covers the MENA region and the Horn of Africa with work mainly focused on humanitarian crisis, migration, conflict, health and culture. He has been represented by Panos Pictures since late 2024. Previously to being based in Erbil he ws based in Dakar, Senegal where he covered West and Central Africa for 5 years with work published from 17 countries in the region.

Guy regularly works on assignment for The Washington Post, De Volkskrant, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Vogue, AFP (Agence France Presse) and Al Jazeera amongst others as well as have features published in Prospect magazine and New Lines Magazine and has worked for notable NGO’s such as Save The Children Action Against Hunger and The World Health Organisation and Mine Advisory Group.

Guy’s impactful work on human rights abuses in Guinea-Bissau’s drug rehabilitation centers was recently nominated for the Amnesty Human Rights Media Awards in 2024. As part of an investigation into the supply chain of super market salmon in the UK with a team from the Financial Times Guy’s work was also given an honourable mention in the Kevin Carmody Award for outstanding investigative reporting at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual awards.

Guy graduated from Falmouth University with a first class honours in Marine and Natural History Photography.