George Butler
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George Butler is an award-winning illustrator, but he has reinvented the role of the artist reporter while drawing conflict zones, climate issues, humanitarian crises, and social issues for the news. His drawings are done in situ - in pen, ink and watercolor.
In August 2012, Butler walked from Turkey across the border into Syria, where as a guest of the rebel Free Syrian Army, he drew the civil war-damaged, small and empty town of Azaz.
A decade later he spent several days in the Metro transit system in Kharkiv, Ukraine, recording the lives of those who lived underground to avoid the Russian bombardment. Those drawings can be seen in the National Archives at the V&A Museum in London.
