At Banjul Fish Market. Sketch by George Butler

You may well have been keeping an eye on George Butler as he sketches his was along a 8,500km journey from London to Libreville, the capital of Gabon. He’s been with the Tuareg’s in Algeria, visited the Festival in the Desert in Mali and has slowly made his way south through Senegal to the smiling coast of The Gambia. He’s helped bring fish in at Banjul fish market, and spent a lazy day on the River Gambia and has now made his way up river to the fantastic chimp rehabilitation centre set up by Stella Marsden. The posts themselves are all a great insight into the way of life in each country, but it’s the sketches that really capture something new. And whether the sketches are simple captures of a human face or a widescreen view of intense human activity they have a vividness about them that paradoxically photography often fails to capture. The sketches really need to be seen in large format so click on the images to see them in all their glory.

Chimp rehabilitation in The Gambia. Sketch by George Butler.