Jim Richardson is an American photojournalist working primarily for the National Geographic Society and as a social documentary photographer recognized for his explorations of small-town life.Richardson's first story for National Geographic magazine appeared in 1984.Since than he has become one of the magazine's most productive contemporary contributing photographers with more than 20 stories.Richardson also is a contributing editor of National Geographic Travelermagazine where he has contributed both writing and photographs.He also is a popular speaker and workshop leader in the U.S. and abroad.His comvined areas of experties include volcanoes agriculture rivers and aquifers and the United Kingdom especially the people culture and landscape of Scotland his Scotland his family's native Cornwall and the wider Celtic world.In may 2004, National Geographic published Richardson's color story on the Great plains alongside a retrospective of his 30 years of social documentary photography of Cuba Kansas.Richardson's ongoing photography of Cuba population 230 has been profiled twice by CBS's sunday Morning first in 1983 and again in 2004