George Butler.

George Butler is a reportage artist who vists different countries and citys,  which are war torn or streets in daily life.  He has illustrated covers and articals for G2 magazine and the times. Afghanistan seems to be one of his biggest projects. He traveld there initially with the british army but found he was confided to drawing them and  place where they where and so he went back and drew the people of Afghanistan. The media only show people what they want them to see , they never show the full picture. So the only impressions we have of the country and the people of Afghanistan is that what the news tell us. Wiplace like Afghanistan being shown of the news a violent, dangerous country and so your initial reactions is don't go there , but Butler did and what I think more illustrators need to do and actually go there or tackle difficult issues and show the hidden sides. We shouldn't solely relay on what the news tell us, and this is a really good definition of what I mean when I said in my project proposal that it is part of an illustrators responsibility. Make more sense of issues and people, translating the reality or a description of the reality for people to see and take in. Making the issue visual, accessible and understandable.

This image of an amputee staring at Butler when he was drawing I find a really striking image. I like how from one image/ portrait you can gain a lot of information for example, he has lost both limbs on his left side and you question how did that occur? You get a slight idea of his character and you sympathies with him as his life cannot be easy with missing two major limbs. But there is an element of hope as he is sitting up, and alive.

I would really love to approach my project in this way, go out do some drawings of people and the places they live  as i think that there is a really value to this approach as you gain a stronger understanding of real society. And with my brief being so people orientated I think that this would be a good move. I can then work from these sketches and come up with more elaborate ideas later on.