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Visual journalism, political drawings and human rights stories by Gianluca Costantini.

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Three days among the people who crossed the mud, rescued their neighbours and began again after the 2023 Emilia-Romagna floods.

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After the Flood — illustrated journalism from Emilia-Romagna

CHANNELDRAW · RECENT STORIES

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26,565 Comments, 34 Hours of Hate

06 August 2026

An Unfiltered Portrait of Racism and Dehumanisation in Today’s Italy

The Faces of ICE’s Victims Enter the United States Senate

06 August 2026

My drawings in the hands of protesters during the “Abolish ICE” action at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington

Portraits of journalists in the Israel-Gaza conflict

16 October 2023

CPJ is investigating all reports of journalists killed, injured, detained or missing in the war, including those hurt as hostilities spread to neighboring Lebanon.

CHANNELDRAW · VISUAL STORIES

Stories across the world

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A drawing of reality.
Not reality itself.

CHANNELDRAW · NOTEBOOK

From the Arbeitsjournal

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ONGOING VISUAL MEMORIAL

In the Crosshairs
of Memory

Portraits of Journalists Killed in Gaza

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Ai Weiwei reviewing the pages of Zodiac in Cambridge, 2019

Ai Weiwei and the resistance in Hong Kong, drawing by Gianluca Costantini

THE COLLABORATION · 2015—TODAY

Drawing Freedom
Together

Gianluca Costantini’s collaboration with Ai Weiwei

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Channeldraw n°1 – Active Art Yearbook 2024

CHANNELDRAW STUDIO · INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING

Active Art Yearbook

A year of drawings, stories and civic engagement. Discover the Channeldraw annual volumes.

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DRAWING IN SOLIDARITY · IRAN

Woman, Life,
Freedom

When Drawings Become Protest

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Drawing · Travel · Research in progress

Joseph
Beuys

A drawing journey through the places, works and traces of an artist.

Follow Gianluca Costantini’s research for a graphic novel about Joseph Beuys, through drawings and illustrated essays from Düsseldorf, Cologne and Krefeld.

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Women’s March action with portraits by Gianluca Costantini at the Hart Senate Office Building — photograph by Leigh Vogel / Getty Images for Women’s March

Gianluca Costantini · Drawings, solidarity and public action · United States

A face becomes a drawing.
A drawing becomes a presence.
Someone carries it into the room.

Portraits, campaigns and acts of remembrance confronting the human consequences of immigration enforcement—and following the images from the studio into the hands of others.

Political Comics

30 August 2026

Zhang Yi: Arrested for Showing a Photo of the Dalai Lama

A Chinese activist and veteran of the 1989 democracy movement faces a national-security prosecution after displaying an image on his phone at a monastery in Lhasa.