Going out into the world, seeing things, drawing them… This is journalism, as much as anything I ever did as a writer on newspapers and magazines.
At best – to which I aspire, even if I’m not there yet – illustrated reportage can create ripples in the world.
Soon after I drew Richard Ratcliffe on hunger strike, a friend who is a journalist asked if I would like to draw a family of refugees she was helping to settle in the UK.
They would be coming to her home, to collect clothing and other items donated by her neighbours.
I drew several pictures that day. Three of them appear in my new book, Psalms For The City.
This one runs across two pages.
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