EUROPE'S WORST NIGHTMARE (2025)

Europe watches from the sidelines as two familiar figures sit down for a conversation that could reshape the continent’s future, without inviting it to the table. A "peace deal" negotiated behind closed doors, without Ukraine, without Europe, raises the question: whose peace, and at what price? This cover, my very first for The Economist, captures the uneasy reality of geopolitics today, where history is being written in whispered conversations, and the rest of the world is left to wonder what the fine print might say.

Client: The Economist. Creative direction: Ben Shmulevitch