East LA

Tender shots of the ’80s East LA gang scene

East LA gang scene">City of angels

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

reclaiming the streets of East LA">Breaking the cycle

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

Art & Culture

Hedonistic nights in 1980s New York’s East Village

East Village">‘Everyone was a star‘

Photographer Andé Whyland remembers capturing candid portraits and dancing alongside the luminaries of downtown New York's club scene, among them Keith Haring, Grace Jones and Ru Paul.

Art & Culture > Photography

The legend of the East Village’s greatest photographer

East Village’s greatest photographer">Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar captured New York between the Stonewall uprising of 1969 and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. Now, his incredible legacy is being revisited in a new show.

Art & Culture > Photography

Ghosts of a lost East London: The last match day at West Ham’s Boleyn Ground

East London: The last match day at West Ham’s Boleyn Ground">The final whistle blows

Michael Fordham was raised on the West Ham terraces. He mourns the death of its century-old ground and the working class football culture it nurtured.

Art & Culture > Art

Clayton Patterson raises the ghosts of the Lower East Side’s anarchic past

Clayton Patterson raises the ghosts of the Lower East Side’s anarchic past">Outlaw art

Patterson’s Outside In retrospective at Howl Arts bridges back to the grassroots creativity of pre-gentrification NYC.

Art & Culture > Film

Meet the leader of the Lower East Side’s last street gang

East Side’s last street gang">Colours, crime and second chances

Cochise led the Satan's Sinners Nomads street gang on New York’s Lower East Side in the late 1980s. After being sent to prison for the attempted murder of two gang members, he turned his life around and now makes art.