Ever lament the dearth of high quality glossy magazines devoted to global and domestic humanitarian efforts? I know I have.

Enter Need Magazine, the brain child of husband and wife Stephanie and Kelly Kinnunen, who lived out of their car for a time to afford to publish it. So often those who want to save the world have no sense of design, so it’s nice to know that you can be a charitable do-gooder and still think about aesthetics. The combination of detailed narrative and striking images dodges that old problem of poverty porn, a la Sebastio Salgado, robbing the subject of context and transforming suffering into an aesthetic experience. Still the high gloss magazine is pretty and I can just see the trend catching on. Paris will just be dying to get the latest toys from the kids of L’Athletique d’Haiti.

About The Author
I was a librarian and now I write books. I used to write about children and now I am writing about Jews. I'm also working on an NGO that helps connect children to each other across cultural, geographic, political, religious, and military divides. - Visit Charles's site.