Ian Bray, Oxfam’s Senior Press Officer, commissioned the German illustrator Olivier Kugler to do a series of drawings highlighting the food crisis in the Sahel. In June this year Olivier went on a week long trip to Burkina Faso where he met people whose lives are being affected by the food crisis and the armed conflict in neighboring Mali. After his return to London, where the artist is based, Olivier used photos and interviews he gathered on the journey to create a five page series of drawings (pencil drawings, digitally colored) to portray some of the people he met. The drawings are getting published in today’s edition of “The Guardian’s G2” supplement. You can also watch the artist on video talking about the project or download the drawings as PDFs.

Olivier Kugler at work