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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.

Squatteurs De Luxe — SPRAY

Million Dollar Squatters get published again, this time with a French touch on up and coming style magazine SPRAY.



All pictures by Alex Masi, for English or Italian text contact me. Both available to be syndicated for further commercial use.

Exploited in Palestine - The Freelance

One of the pictures I took at a NUJ's London Freelance Branch meeting and that was published on the branch's own magazine.



Journalist and researcher Penny Quinton has carried out a series of interviews with Palestinian colleagues focusing on how they cope with the stress of working in a conflict zone, often for Western news agencies that lay them off if they get injured or wounded. This was the case of Osama Silwadi (pictured) who used to work for Reuters and now runs a photo agency from a wheelchair.

The Guardian Weekend

One of the images I shot of the freeway bridge in Minneapolis, MN. that collapsed on August 1, 2007, killing six and injuring scores more.



Marketed by New York-based World Picture News, it was published by the Saturday supplement of The Guardian as part of their end-of-year review in pictures.

Other images of the event are available for syndication through WPN.

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.

Con Buddha nell'astuccio - D, La Repubblica delle donne

Dharma is an ancient Indian spiritual concept that signifies the underlying order present in nature and life.

Dharma is also a private faith school that provides alternative education situated in the balmy seaside resort of Brighton, in the south east of England.


Inspired by, and informed with, principles of compassion and non-confrontation, its curriculum has encountered immediate success among progressive-thinking parents and their children since it opened to business in the late 1990s.



Mind you, not everybody here is a practicing Buddhist.

What has appealed to hundreds in the course of just a few years is the school's commitment to providing the kids with a high standard of well-being and creative stimuli.


More images can be found on alexmasi.co.uk











This story has so far been published only in Italian on D, the weekend supplement of leading daily newspaper La Repubblica.

An English version can be provided on request, and pictures and text are available to be syndicated separately.

Education, not proselytism;
Spirituality, not religion;
Acceptance, not confrontation.

Dharma school motto.

Bedouins of the Holy Land, TheMiddleEast - August 2006

This article was my first major project to be published in the UK. Photographer Alex Masi and I spent more than a month and a half among Bedouin tribes in Israel in order to document their lifestyle, and the difficulties they endure daily as they try to integrate with the mainstream Israeli society.

Published on The Middle East magazine. More images can be found on Alex's website.

Pictures and text are also available to be syndicated separately.

Journalism Training supplement - Press Gazette UK

For this very same supplement, I have also interviewed a number of editors and asked them what makes a good journalist. Interviewees included Roger Alton, editor of The Observer, Simon Grant, editor of Tate etc., and Kevin Bakhurst, head of BBC news 24.

Press Gazette UK - NUJ centennary special issue

These are few of the interviews I made with young and old(er) members of the NUJ, which this year is celebrating its 100th birthday.

It was touching and fascinating to speak to individuals that have played such an important part — well, at least some of them — in the history of the union.

All extremely nice people these union workers, more often than not I would find myself just amicably chatting with them at the end of the interview.


Visit the NUJ web site for more info about their activities.

Global Report - Press Gazette UK

Global Report - Press Gazette UK

Press Gazette UK

Student hub opens its doors with a fanfare - LCC News

An archive of all the articles I wrote during my time at the LCC News can be found here.

Fosterer Tribute - Marylebone & Paddington Mercury

Our fountains are drought of order - Kensington & Chelsea News

Here's the main story I followed during my stint at the Kensington & Chelsea News. I was on it for a while, and the whole drought it was sort of a big thing in England at the time.


It was a great success, and I was extremely pleased to see it published on page 3, the best spot on a paper apart from the cover as many of you may know.

I feel it is safe to say that this was the article that made me understand journalism was for me.

And I was for journalism.

Our markets are stalling - Kensington & Chelsea News

For this story I got into the character of a roving reporter, left the office and actually went to meet shop owners in Golborne rd, north west London.

They voiced their anger at the extension of the congestion charge to the whole borough of Kensington and Chelsea, a move they saw as a threat to their businesses.

Things took an intriguing turn when it became clear that a nearby road where Sainsbury's has one of its mega-supermarkets would be conveniently cut out of the c.c. zone. A huge favour to thousands of customers, but also to the company's employees and endless delivery trucks....

Not the end of the world - Kensington & Chelsea News

Another story for which I needed to get out of the office 'on assignment'.

Council estate by the river in Kensington called World's End. Plans by the council are under way to invest a million pounds to make the whole complex safer and more resident-friendly.



But residents, at least the ones I spoke to, do not seem very enthusiastic about it, and they say that the proposed changes will change the estate forever, assimilating it with the rest of the area, a very exclusive part of London.

Angry, and very chatty, mothers claim their kids won't have any adequate space to play, the rumours of anti-social behaviour are far from reality, money could be spent better, and they will do whatever it takes to stop the initiative.

They eventually tell me they would chain their kids and themselves to the square's lamp posts to prevent work to start.....Spicy!