NEED on TIME.com

Congratulations to my friends at NEED magazine for scoring yet another editorial and marketing success by having a set of images from one of their recent feature stories published on TIME.com.

© Andy Richter/NEED magazine

American freelance photographer Andy Richter’s reportage of the Starkey Hearing Foundation was originally featured on NEED issue 5 —soon fully available online here.

Specialists audiologists, who volunteer their time and skills to the Minnesotan-based organisation, visit and assist thousands of hearing-impaired people in countries stretching from the U.S. to Vietnam, delivering more than 50,000 hearing aids annually through more than 100 hearing missions a year.


© Andy Richter/NEED magazine

Future | Solid Foundations | NEED magazine

NEED magazine has published its latest issue featuring a story of mine about an American aid and development organisation called CHF International that works, among many other places, in the Balkans.



See the whole reportage here. Read the story here (Synopsis only, full story available soon). All pictures by Maciej Dakowicz.

News to brighten up your winter

Winter is definitely upon us in all its coldness and wetness, but for once we won't have to look out too hardly to find some good news coming our way from the publishing world.

NEED magazine, the American humanitarian publication I contribute to was eventually rescued from premature death and is fully back in action: the much delayed Issue 5 is out now in the US. Unfortunately it is not normally available (yet) in European bookstores and newstands, but you can order your copy here if you wish to do so.

NEED's Editor in Chief Stephanie Kinnunen.

You can also read all the stories featured in previous issues — plus a brief introduction of the ones coming out on Issue 5 — on NEED's website.

And if you really can't wait until peeps at Borders finally decide to stock the magazine in the UK as they are already doing in the States, contact them here.

I will talk more about NEED's Issue 5 as soon as I get hold of a copy myself, and will also upload a couple of tearsheets of the story I've written for them from the Balkans about an organisation called CHF International and their micro-finance projects.


On a somewhat less exciting note, you might have noticed some little changes I 've made to this blog. It is not a great deal, but if you look at the top of the page, just below the masthead, you'll find a new quick link section, which I hope will ad some extra spice to readers' browsing — especially new visitors. As I mentioned in a previous entry, it is part of a medium-term drive to move my operations to a "real" website, a goal on which I'm still working on.


Stay Tuned

NEED magazine | Cooperation | Building Community

Published on NEED Issue 4, out in the US in November 2007, this is the story that started my ongoing collaboration with the humanitarian magazine.



It focuses on the collaboration between two Minnesota-based nonprofits that sparked the rebuilding of Sri Lankan Communities annihilated by the Asian Tsunami of Boxing Day 2004.














Get the full story and all the images here.