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Film

The secret recipe of London's iconic Blue Plaques

Family Business — Huck meets the family who make London's famous Blue Plaques - which mark where famous figures lived across the capital, in our latest short film.

Written by: HUCK HQ

Art

Five things we learnt from Mark Gonzales' revealing Monster Children interview

Video: Longform — The most interesting man in skateboarding talks about eating cats at night, skating his son through Soho on a makeshift throne, and a period of excessive spending in Japan.

Written by: Shelley Jones

Art

Meet the creative nomads building new lives on the move

Our top five wandering projects — A new generation of artists and creatives are taking their lives mobile to revolutionise their relationship with the world around them.

Written by: Alex King

Photography

Club Sanaa are crowdfunding to train a new generation of Tanzanian photographers

Lenses change lives — Club Sanaa are working with Msamariakids Centre for Street Children in Moshi to empower marginalised young people through photography.

Written by: HUCK HQ

Photography

For Magnum photographer Eli Reed, respect opens the door to human stories

A Long Walk Home — Whether he's documenting social upheaval, exploring American-African experience in the US, or shooting stars on Hollywood film sets, New Jersey-born Eli Reed – who was the first black man to join the Magnum roster in 1988 – finds common ground with his subjects by always approaching them with the empathy and respect he would wish for himself.

Written by: Oliver Lunn (interview)

Activism

Ondi Timoner on the documentary Russell Brand doesn’t want you to see

Messiahs, narcissists and changing the world — Dig! and We Live in Public director Ondi Timoner is drawn to visionaries. But like Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman Anton Newcombe and infamous internet pioneer Josh Harris before him, Russell Brand is attempting to sabotage her portrayal of him, Brand: A Second Coming.

Written by: Alex King

Art

Meet Jack Coulter - the artist turning synesthesia into art

A neurological phenomenon on canvas — Jack Coulter sees colours in a very unique way, turning his vibrant visualisations into abstract art. His work has already been used by SOAK and has a legion of fans online.

Written by: Sam Warner

Print

The constant reinvention of skateboarding’s dark genius Scott Bourne

New book: Orgy Porgy: Short Stories and True Tales — Former pro-skateboarder Scott Bourne on his new chapter as a poet, novelist and father based in Paris.

Written by: Alex King

Art

Street artist Swoon launching Kickstarter to renovate abandoned church

The Braddock Tiles project — Swoon’s Braddock Tiles project aims to transform lives in a former steel town by renovating an abandoned church and creating a tile workshop.

Written by: Sam Warner

Art

Graffiti pioneer RUN asks if we've left our primitive roots behind

Man is God — Have we become 21st Century gods? Giacomo Bufarini aka RUN’s new show Man is God questions our relationship to the world around us.

Written by: Alex King

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