Olivier Kugler is a German-born London-based editorial illustrator and visual journalist. He holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and has travelled to Iran, Laos, Iraqi Kurdistan, Cairo, Ghana and many other places on assignment for a variety of publications including The Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, French journal XXI and Internazionale in Italy.

He has done extensive reporting on Middle Eastern refugees, a collaboration with Doctors Without Borders, in Europe and a book collecting this work called Dem Krieg Entronnen was published in German by Edition Moderne – and in the UK and North America as Escaping Wars and Waves. The book has won two major European design and illustration awards. Oli is also a past winner of a V&A Illustration Award and World Illustration Award.

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