Neill Ellis and Kasi Nell in Sierra Leone flying the JESA Mi-24 gunship used in Operation Barras against the West Side Boys. ©Robert Young Pelton. all rights reserved.
Kabul Afghanistan. ©Robert Young Pelton. all rights reserved.
Sabratha, Libya.©Robert Young Pelton. all rights reserved.
Early morning image of a raft of African migrants onboard a smuggler's inflatable rubber canvas raft in the Mediterranean. ©Robert Young Pelton. all rights reserved.
Child soldiers of the LURD rebels in the Small Boys Unit in Voinjama, Liberia. ©Robert Young Pelton. all rights reserved.
Anza Borrego California. ©Robert Young Pelton. all rights reserved.
Afghanistan. ©Robert Young Pelton. all rights reserved.
Special Forces camp in Afghanistan featuring "Mr DP", the famous laughing skull logo of Robert Young Pelton found on the front lines around the world since the 90's. ©Robert Young Pelton. all rights reserved.
Robert Young Pelton shows Nuer fighters in South Sudan their portraits. ©Robert Young Pelton. all rights reserved.
Nigerian migrants on a raft in the Mediterranean. ©Robert Young Pelton. all rights reserved.
Robert Young Pelton on the rebel-held island of Bougainville in the South Pacific. ©Robert Young Pelton. all rights reserved.
Despite a ban on photography, the taliban insisted that Robert Young Pelton get a journalist card when they discovered him after sneaking into Afghanistan. ©Robert Young Pelton. all rights reserved.
John Walker Lindh interviewed by Robert Yong Pelton in Sheberghan, Afghanistan, on December 1, 2001. ©Robert Young Pelton, all rights reserved.
On the front lines with Commander Dawood in the Panjshir Valley ©Robert Young Pelton, all rights reserved.
Paying to be smuggled into an African war. ©Robert Young Pelton, all rights reserved.
Outside Bagram Air Base. Afghanistan ©Robert Young Pelton, all rights reserved.
Robert Young Pelton with Teodoro Obiang, President of Equatorial Guinea. ©Robert Young Pelton, all rights reserved.
South Sudan. ©Robert Young Pelton, all rights reserved.
Rebel leder Francis Ona and Robert Young Pelton on the island of Bougainville, called Mekamui by the rebels. ©RYP, all rights reserved.
SF gear with Mr DP in Afghanistan. ©Robert Young Pelton, all rights reserved.
White Army, Malakal, South Sudan. ©Robert Young Pelton, all rights reserved.
Nuer soldier in the town of Akoba. ©Robert Young Pelton, all rights reserved.
Istanbul. ©Robert Young Pelton, all rights reserved.
Sailing the Strait of Hormuz. ©Robert Young Pelton, all rights reserved.
A Blackwater contractor is a tail gunner in the Hate Truck in Iraq. ©Robert Young Pelton, all rights reserved.
Kabul, Afghanistan. ©RYP, all rights reserved.
New York Police.©RYP, all rights reserved.
Critical expedition gear. Cheap Converse canvas shoes. Worn since I was ten, canoeing the rivers of North America. You might get a month or two out of a pair. ©RYP, all rights reserved.
Robert Young Pelton on patrol with Colombian Marines on the Magdalena River, trolling for FARC rebels. ©RYP, all rights reserved
A young migrant woman in Libya. ©RYP, all rights reserved
A destroyed plaster casting for a bronze statue in Baghdad, Iraq, in early 2003. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Robert Young Pelton on the front line during the siege of Villa Somalia in Mogadishu. Somalia in 2010. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Rohingya refugee in Myanmar. ©RYP, all rights reserved.
A Colombian police operation. ©RYP, all rights reserved.
Robert Young Pelton interviews Alphonso Cano, a leader of the FARC in Colombia. ©RYP, all rights reserved.
Tarhuna Libya. ©RYP, all rights reserved.
Former Wagner command center left booby trapped in Tripoli Libya.©RYP, all rights reserved
Zanzibar. ©RYP, all rights reserved.
Zanzibar. ©RYP, all rights reserved.
Zanzibar. ©RYP, all rights reserved.
Zanzibar. ©RYP, all rights reserved.
.Zanzibar. ©RYP, all rights reserved.
Nic de Toit was a South African mercenary captured during a failed coup attempt in Malabo. Equatorial Guinea. Robert Young Pelton traveled to meet with President Obiang to gain his release. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Looking for the last words carved into the makeshift prison door. Tarhuna, Libya. ©RYP, all rights reserved.
Northerrn Puntland, Somalia with the PMPF on patrol ©RYP, all rights reserved
Nevada. ©RYP, all rights reserved.
Shia women waiting for a mass grave to be exhumed outside Baghdad, Iraq. ©Robert Young Pelton, all rights reserved.
A woman has just lost her house to rocket fire in Shali, Chechnya in the second war in December 1999. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Member of the Small Boys Unit in Vonjoma, Liberia, during the civil war. He is carrying a controller that he insists moves bullets away from him. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Rebel training camp run by Free Burma Rangers. ©RYP, all rights reserved
A Kamajor fighter from Sierra Leone. His shirt is covered in Arabic verses from the Koran, and he insists his amulets and shea butter anointment protect him from bullets. ©RYP, all rights reserved
A local Afghan tribal policeman along the. border with Pakistan. ©RYP, all rights reserved
A man who had adopted orphans in Libya after his children were brutally murdered by Haftar's forces in Tarhunah. ©RYP, all rights reserved
A member of the White Army in Malakal during the fighting against government forces. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Robert Young Pelton with a U.S. Army Special Forces Alpha team in Afghanistan. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Robert Young Pelton records a live drill inside a Colombian kill house where the man in front him has been hit. ©Steve Salisbury, all rights reserved
Close-up of a Green Beret's arm tattoo in Kunduz, Afghanistan. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Afghanistan. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Heading down river in the blistering heat of Kalimantan, Indonesia. ©Robert Young Pelton, all rights reserved.
Afghanistan ©RYP, all rights reserved
Robert Young Pelton holding a young antelope surrounded by four Nuer fighters in Akobo, South Sudan. A gift that I couldn't bring myself to eat. ©RYP, all rights reserved
LURD rebels, a small boys unit in Voinjama, argue with Pelton. ©RYP, all rights reserved.
Baghdad, Iraq shortly after the arrival of the U.S. military. ©Robert Young Pelton, all rights reserved.
Anza Borrego. ©RYP, all rights reserved
May 2003. In al-Mahawil, Iraq Shia women wait as bodies are exhumed by backhoe from a mass grave from 1991. @RYP all rights reserved
Robert Young Pelton in Bujumbura on the 1991 Camel Trophy across Africa. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Iraq. ©RYP, all rights reserved
In 2003, Pelton left the employ of CBS's 60 Minutes in Baghdad to find and catalog mass graves of the Saddam era. This is al-Mahawil. @RYP all rights reserved
Robert Young Pelton (third from left) and the four man team at the end of the 1991 Camel Trophy in Bujumbura, Burundi at the Ruzisi National Park ©RYP, all rights reserved
Libya. @RYP all rights reserved
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. ©RYP, all rights reserved
The famous Afghan war carpet from Kunduz. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Desert survival kit. ©RYP, all rights reserved
To find Osama bin Laden, Pelton spent weeks living in the compounds along the border with Pakistan. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Pelton made several trips and expeditions to find and document the last rural Iban in the highlands of Borneo. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Pelton wrote a book about adventure on the island of Borneo. ©RYP, all rights reserved
The ruins of southern Tripoli, Libya where Wagner was headquartered. ©RYP, all rights reserved
A group of Libyans reviews the desecrated remains of victims in Tarhuna to help identify loved ones. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Pelton's love for photography began in high school with a Pentax SV, one lens, and a home darkroom. ©RYP, all rights reserved
On an operation in Puli Kumri, Afghanistan, with Afghan Commandos. ©RYP, all rights reserved
LURD rebels in Voinjama. ©RYP, all rights reserved
The White Army on a rampage in Malakal, South Sudan ©RYP, all rights reserved
Robert Young Pelton above Sirobi, Afghanistan. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Arrested in Indonesia. ©Robert Young Pelton, all rights reserved.
Hiking in rebel territory in Myanmar. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Chechen commander in central Grozny December 1999. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Northern Chad. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Noon firing of the cannon in Valletta, Malta. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Berlin, Germany ©RYP, all rights reserved
FARC rebel, Colombia ©RYP, all rights reserved
American troops enter Baghdad. ©RYP, all rights reserved
End of a night mission with U.S. Army Special Forces. ©RYP, all rights reserved
South Sudan. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Inside the Mosque of the Hagia Sophia Istanbul. ©Robert Young Pelton, all rights reserved.
Robert Young Pelton with a young chimpanzee adopted by South African mercenaries in Sierra Leone. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Robert Young Pelton in Borneo. ©Coskun Aral, all rights reserved
Robert Young Pelton interviewing Sheik Salamat Hashim, the head of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the Southern Philippines. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Anza Borrego Breakfast ©Robert Young Pelton. all rights reserved.
Robert Young Pelton with the SPLA in Sudan. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Selous Park on the Camel Trophy. ©Robert Young Pelton. all rights reserved.
Grozny, Chechnya. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Gas stop in Northern Chad. ©Robert Young Pelton. all rights reserved.
Shali, Chechnya. ©RYP, all rights reserved
General Dostum welcomes Pelton to his compound in Kabul. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Robert Young Pelton, age five in Edmonton Alberta ©RYP, all rights reserved
Robert Young Pelton working as a blaster's assistant ©RYP, all rights reserved
Robert Young Pelton, sling-loading supplies in Northern British Columbia. ©RYP, all rights reserved
Robert Young Pelton in his natural habitat. ©RYP, all rights reserved