A version of this story appears in Huck Issue 77. Get your copy now, or subscribe to make sure you never miss another issue. What’s better than this? It’s a summer night and you’re 15 years old. You’re playing spin the bottle with your friends at Hackney Bumps, a skate park made of undulating concrete that looks like a lunar landscape,… Read more »
A version of this story appears in Huck Issue 77. Get your copy now, or subscribe to make sure you never miss another issue. Towards the end of summer 2020, Karl Shannon sent out a tweet, asking if any LGBTQ+ GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) players based in the Dublin area would like to come together for a game. While he… Read more »
A version of this story appears in Huck Issue 77. Get your copy now, or subscribe to make sure you never miss another issue. On 27 May, 1962, a long, shrill whistle swept through Centralia, sounding the alarm. An abandoned coal mine, now an unofficial trash dump, was on fire. Volunteer firefighters and borough workers moved quickly to extinguish the… Read more »
A version of this story appears in Huck Issue 77. Get your copy now, or subscribe to make sure you never miss another issue. It’s early in the morning at Bureh Beach, a stretch of sand situated on the far tip of Sierra Leone’s Western Area Peninsula. Something apocalyptic is brewing. Fearsome Atlantic waves batter the shoreline. The sky is… Read more »
A version of this story appears in Huck Issue 77. Get your copy now, or subscribe to make sure you never miss another issue. Young Palestinians are jumping across the wreckage of the al-Jalaa tower, an 11-storey building in Gaza once home to the Associated Press and Al Jazeera television, as well as 60 residential homes. Dozens of the group,… Read more »
A version of this story appears in Huck Issue 76. Get your copy now, or subscribe to make sure you never miss another issue. Ghetts is rifling down the road on his trusty quad bike, its engine a crackling, cacophonic roar. Without slowing, he leans back, foot hooked around the metal bar attached to the vehicle’s rear, and pulls up… Read more »
In its early days, graffiti-writing meant scaling walls to get into abandoned buildings, walking along train tracks in the dead of night, and battling with other writers to gain notability. Influenced by the originators from 1970s New York, the UK graffiti scene began to take its own form. But from the get-go, men dominated proceedings,… Read more »
As a photographer, Priya Oades is driven by connection. Whether they’re shooting the frenzy of a protest or making portraits of musicians backstage, it’s about creating a link between documenter and subject. “I’ve always been drawn to more authentic representations of people, art and culture,” she says. Despite the fact they are, relatively speaking, at… Read more »
Stacy Peralta navigated the process from pro skateboarder to filmmaker with characteristic poise. He began shooting, directing, producing and editing videos for his skateboarding company because they couldn’t afford to hire anyone else. “I literally got a film school’s worth of education doing it,” he remembers, speaking today from the London Surf Film Festival, where his… Read more »
A version of this story appears in Huck Issue 77. Get your copy now, or subscribe to make sure you never miss another issue. Mitski Miyawaki is reminiscing about a missing person. “She was someone who simply wrote her feelings, and didn’t think about how her narrative was being conveyed,” she recalls, describing a talented 20-something who’s “long gone now”…. Read more »
If you were a British skateboarder in the late ’80s, early ’90s, then you probably read RaD magazine. Or, its previous incarnation: BMX Action Bike. For Tim Leighton-Boyce, RaD’s editor, skateboarding was always the primary interest. A photographer himself, he felt that skate photography offered more than its BMX-leaning equivalent. Issue by issue, he began… Read more »
Gideon Mendel’s Drowning World project uses portraits, landscapes and found photographs to visually explore global flooding. In 2020, he began work on its follow-up, Burning World – this time looking at the climate crisis through the vehicle of fire. The series has taken him all over the world, from Australia to Canada and the US…. Read more »
