Peter Bussian has been a documentary photographer for more than 15 years and has photographed refugee/relief situations in many regions of the world, including Central America, the Balkans, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Throughout that time he has also maintained an events and portrait business in New York City. Since 2001 he has spent more than two years working in Afghanistan and Iraq.

His clients are mainly UN agencies, USAID contractors, NGOs and several newspapers and magazines. A complete list of clients can be found on his website at www.peterbussian.org. Bussian studied filmmaking in New York at Columbia University and at the Anthropology Film Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He holds a BA in history and anthropology from the University of Colorado and is a native of Jamestown, Colorado.