WINNER, ASSOCIATION OF ILLUSTRATORS (AOI) WORLD ILLUSTRATION AWARDS 2015
In 2016, Rezan, a fashion designer from war-torn Kobani, Syria, travelled with his family in a boat to the Greek island of Kos, holding his 8-year-old niece Rocca on his lap, and his watercolours in his backpack. Their house had been ransacked, his artwork destroyed, but it was when he saw the destruction of his neighbour’s orchard where he used to play as a child that he couldn’t hold back… ‘You can rebuild a house easily, but the trees?’ Olivier Kugler’s award-winning graphic reportage, mostly on commission for Médecins Sans Frontières, brings stories of families under siege in Syria, their journeys to Iraqi Kurdistan and Europe; stories which document their lives as refugees in Domiz, Kos, Calais, Birmingham and London and Simmozheim, the village where Kugler grew up in Germany; stories which have deep and lasting consequences for us all. ‘Olivier Kugler is an extraordinarily skilled journalist and cartoonist who is taking comics journalism to a new level. These potent profiles from the migration front lines will leave an indelible impression on your brain and heart.’ Joe Sacco ‘Kugler is the contemporary face of reportage illustration, looking hard, asking questions and coming back with the drawings.’ John Walters, Eye Magazine ‘Proactive, attentive, sensitive… confronting and communicating experiences and realities, self-effacing Kugler prioritises giving his interviewees their voice.’ Paul Gravett, ArtReview Graphic nonfiction / Refugees
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Graphic nonfiction / Refugees
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