What we look for in a Made person.
Five questions we ask before we ever pick up a camera.
// ARTICLES & FIELD NOTES
The writing
The writing
between the issues.
Essays, field notes, interviews, and the smaller stories that do not always make it into a printed edition.
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The myth of the self-made hero.
Nobody runs into a building alone. Behind every person we publish, there is a quiet network of people who held the door open. We went looking for them.
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12 ARTICLESThe doctor who would not leave.
Gaza, 2024. A conversation we have been carrying ever since.
The myth of the self-made hero.
Nobody runs into a building alone. Here’s who is always behind them.
Father Markos, in his own words.
The priest who quietly built a school for orphans of the Tigray war.
How we verify a story.
Three sources. Two visits. One hour with the person, no camera, no phone.
What “impact” actually costs.
The hidden price tag of every act of quiet courage we have published this year.
James Aboh, eighteen months later.
What happens to a Made person after the cameras go away.
The first time we got it wrong.
And what we have changed about how we work, since.
The Watchman of Onitsha.
What a night-guard taught us about responsibility, payment, and presence.
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