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Britain needs safe and legal routes to asylum now

It’s time to act — A teenage boy has died after trying to cross the Channel. If the UK’s toxic asylum policy remains, he won’t be the last.

  • Opinion
  • Mary Atkinson

Getting deep with Ian MacKaye, the godfather of DIY culture

Lockdown Longread — The former Fugazi and Minor Threat frontman and Dischord Records owner talks self-preservation, digital obsession and finding your life tree trunk.

  • Music
  • Andrea Kurland

Always moving: a whirlwind week with Mark Gonzales

The Lockdown Longread — Mark Gonzales and The Gonz are two sides of the same fable. There is the man and the myth, the artist and the skateboarder. And then there’s the enigma that somehow binds it all.

  • Skate
  • Andrea Kurland

A photographer's intimate portraits of a family in flux

Loving and leaving — Matt Eich exposes moments that may mean nothing here and now but, in the end, will be the only thing that ever mattered.

  • Photography
  • Andrea Kurland

Naomi Klein's guide to resisting power

It's time to take a leap — Tragedies can be a gateway for radical neoliberal agendas, says award-winning writer Naomi Klein, and that’s why we need to knuckle down and get real about the future.

  • Culture
  • Andrea Kurland

Naomi Klein says Grenfell Tower is "lovelessness in public"

A tragedy of fake facades — Cult writer Naomi Klein has been debunking neoliberalism's gilded promise since the 1990s. Grenfell Tower, she says, is yet another tragic reminder that beyond the golden surface lies a rotten core.

  • Activism
  • Andrea Kurland

A young mother commutes from Mexico to the US

Huck Film: Mitad Y Mitad — Karla Nutter commutes every day from Juárez, Mexico to El Paso, Texas, straddling a line that her husband is barred from crossing. Her story is shared in Mitad Y Mitad (Half and Half), an original Huck film.

  • Film
  • Andrea Kurland

Photographer Clint Woodside on the life-changing power of zines

Deadbeat Club: Zineophobia — To celebrate Zineophobia - the first UK show from Californian collective Deadbeat Club - we’re sitting down with all six photographers and breaking down what makes them tick. Next in line is Clint Woodside: film photographer, Deadbeat Club founder and the only East Coaster in the pack.

  • Photography
  • Andrea Kurland

Dear young photographer: 'Shoot a lot of pictures. Be a doer, not a chatter.'

Advice from Magnum’s David Hurn — Magnum photographer David Hurn has spent 60+ years swapping prints with some of the finest photographers to ever live. And each one came with its very own lesson.

  • Photography
  • Andrea Kurland

Ed Templeton’s tips for overcoming fear as a self-taught photographer

Deadbeat Club: Zineophobia — To celebrate Zineophobia - the first UK show from Californian collective Deadbeat Club - we’re sitting down with all six photographers and breaking down what makes them tick. First in line is Ed Templeton: artist, photographer, Toy Machine founder, and the man who shoots Huntington Beach close to 365 days a year.

  • Photography
  • Andrea Kurland

The war photographer who reinvented himself off-the-grid

Processing trauma — Rafal Gerszak had to witness war in order to document history, but it almost cost him his life. Out in the wild of Canada’s north, he found his way back from the brink.

  • Magazine
  • Andrea Kurland

Snapshots of the Rainbow Nation before and after Apartheid fell

Now and Then — Photographer Graeme Williams creates a thread between the present and past in Mandela's South Africa.

  • Reportage
  • Andrea Kurland

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