Denis Lopatin
was born in Belarus in 1977, where he began working as a newspaper cartoonist since 1994. Since 2002 – in the Far East of Russia, in the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, near Alaska. He worked as an illustrator in newspapers, but in 2018, due to criminal prosecution for making a satirical poster for the rally, he was forced to leave Russia.
At the invitation of Cartooning for Peace, he came with his family to France.
Now lives in France and work as concept artist and also as live caricature artist.