Oliver Kugler is a German-born, London-based editorial illustrator and visual journalist. He has traveled to Iran, Laos, Iraqi Kurdistan, Cairo, Ghana and many other places on assignment for a variety of publications including The Guardian, New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, French journal XXI and German GQ. He has done extensive reporting on Middle Eastern refugees in Europe. 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.