Studio Brief 1 - House of Illustration

One of the galleries I visited when down in London for Hanbury was the House of Illustration. They had an excellent exhibition on reportage illustration covering the refugee crisis. To see reportage work getting a lot of press and attention was very refreshing and reassuring. It was lovely to see these drawings in person too and to imagine those very pieces of paper once being in that location with the subjects and the situation playing out before it. It added an extra power to the images, an extra authenticity that photography could not replicate. The illustrations themselves have been in the same space as both the illustrator and the illustrated subjects and that in and of itself is a powerful thing. 

It would be great to cover a similar story with my work in the future.