Huck’s most popular photo stories of 2017
- Text by HUCK HQ
It’s been a good year for photography on Huck. From the big names to breakout talent, local stories to international reportage, we’ve been lucky enough to exhibit heaps of wonderful work – concluding, fittingly, with Rule-Breakers, the latest of our annual documentary photo specials.
So, as 2017 draws out, we’ve collated the stories that you liked the most over the past 12 months. Featuring Michael Wolf, Betsy Schneider, Constantine Manos and more, here are Huck’s most popular photo stories of the year – as chosen by readers.
© Alexander Petrosyan
Street life, St. Petersburg style – Alexander Petrosyan
Street photographer Alexander Petrosyan spent decades discovering what makes his home town tick: the everyday drama of a city built on contradictions.
© Michael Wolf
Tokyo Compression – Michael Wolf
Michael Wolf spent years documenting the world’s busiest travel system – Tokyo’s Odakyu Odawara Line – capturing a claustrophobic nightmare in the process.
© Julia Fullerton-Batten
Julia Fullerton-Batten – The Act
Julia Fullerton-Batten’s The Act captures women in the sex industry, putting them in theatrical scenes and allowing them to tell their own stories.
© Aron Klein
The Kukeri – Aron Klein
In towns and villages across Bulgaria, the Kukeri ritual sees demons and evil spirits scared away. Photographer Aron Klein was there to capture it – in all of its mystical beauty.
© Lois Bielefeld
Weeknight Dinners – Lois Bielefeld
Photographer Lois Bielefeld has spent years documenting people’s weeknight meal rituals, gathering intimate insight into a diverse range of lives.
© Phyllis B. Dooney
Gravity Is Stronger Here – Phyllis B. Dooney
Phyllis B. Dooney, a self-described “Yankee from New England”, embedded herself in Southern living to photograph all the beautiful contradictions of an archetypal American family.
© Jonas Kakó
Inside Kleinfontein – Jonas Kakó
In the titular secluded village, residents live a life of segregation and racism, longing to return to their Apartheid past. German photographer Jonas Kakó was invited into the settlement.
© Constantine Manos
American Colour – Constantine Manos
From the ’90s through to the ’00s, Magnum photographer Constantine Manos travelled across the sunshine state, capturing the life, love and surreal, sun-soaked style of its local residents.
© Betsy Schneider
To Be Thirteen – Betsy Schneider
In 2012, Betsy Schneider documented 250 13-year-olds across America. Now that the teens in question are about to graduate, those snapshots of transition are finally coming to light.
© Mahtab Hussain
You Get Me? – Mahtab Hussain
Photographer Mahtab Hussain’s portraits of young British muslims explore race, representation, respect and cultural difference in a community under attack.
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