You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we renew new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.

I'm your host, Elise Hugh. Today's talk is part of our new TED Fellows films adapted for podcasts just for our TED Talks Daily listeners.

This is part of a special series of episodes we release throughout the year showcasing the incredible stories behind the

TED Fellows program, which supports a network of global innovators. Today, we want you to meet

illustrator and reportage artist George Butler. George reports on the ground from conflict zones, climate hotspots, and humanitarian crises

using pen, ink, and watercolor to highlight personal stories of perseverance.

He shares how by traveling to the edges of conflict and disaster,

he captures and shares human stories that are often overlooked,

and how by slowing down and being

present with someone in the midst of crisis, he's able to go deeper than the headlines.

After we hear from George stick around for his conversation with Ted Fellows program director,

Lily James Olds.

Drawing has become one of the few moments in my life that i get to be to be present with somebody it's a chance to be with them and connect which i think is very rare in this world. My name's George Butler.

I'm a reportage artist,

and that means going to different parts of the world,

drawing humanitarian crisis, conflict zones, natural disasters,

and recording the stories that I find there.

I spend a lot of time drawing in places that are typically very loud.

Busy scenes around the edges of atrocity.

And I'm just sitting and drawing, focusing on someone's eyebrows or their face

or the way that their eye catches the light.

Someone's telling you this sort of heartbreaking story and you're trying to record or relate

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