After visiting Los Angeles' Maravilla Park, photographer Janette Beckman got to know a Mexican-American gang there and set about capturing a different side to their community.

Art & Culture > Photography

Down and out in east LA: vintage shots of Chicano life

east LA: vintage shots of Chicano life">Edge of society

In the 1970s, photographer Wynn Miller joined the Arizona Maravilla gang: a disenfranchised community stuck on the margins of society.

Art & Culture > Photography

A photographic history of East LA in the 90s

East LA in the 90s">Legends never die

In her visual archive, artist Guadalupe Rosales passes on the stories, traditions and history of Chicanx culture in the 1990s.

Outdoor

The all-female bike crew reclaiming the streets of East LA

East LA">Breaking the cycle

Cycling collective Ovarian Psycos are on a mission to take back the city in the name of sisterhood.

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A gripping portrait of the LAPD in the 1990s

A kinder gentler cop

As a ride-along photographer with the LAPD, Joseph Rodriguez captured first hand the work of one of America's most notorious police forces.

Art & Culture > Music

The grit and glamour of Californian hip hop

In pictures

From Snoop Dogg and Tupac to A$AP Rocky – photographer Mike Miller has spent decades documenting the world of West Coast hip hop.

Art & Culture

Why punk keeps connecting people across space and time

Teenage kicks

Photographers GODLIS and Angela Boatwright capture two distinct scenes: 1970s New York and contemporary Los Angeles.

Art & Culture > Art

An inside look at LA’s queer Chicano networks

True radicals

Fusing Mexican-American culture with a DIY punk spirit, the underground Chicano art scene of the late ’60s and early ’90s is finally celebrated a new exhibition.

Art & Culture > Photography

The photographer who captured the birth of punk and hip hop in the 1980s

To celebrate 10 years of Huck, we're digging through the archives to unearth stories that feel as relevant as ever. When photographer Janette Beckman started documenting underground communities in the US, she had no idea it would change youth culture forever.

Art & Culture

The Firestarters: meet the photographers who captured punk

Style that still burns brightly

As Punk London’s year-long celebration takes over the Photographers’ Gallery with an exhibition of punk portraits, photographers Derek Ridger and Anita Corbin share the stories behind their iconic images.