California
The anti-racist surf crew taking back LA’s beaches
Turn the tide — ‘Color The Water’ is a different kind of surf crew. Formed as Black Lives Matter protests swept the globe, the Los Angeles collective is out to reclaim surf culture in southern California – one wave at a time.
Written by: Jibri Nuriddin
A visual diary of Black artists coming of age in the '90s
Living to create — After acquiring a Polaroid camera, photographer Lyle Ashton Harris began capturing a transformative period of his life as a young artist studying at Cal Arts.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Coming of age in a 1970s California suburb
West Coast dreaming — In her early 20s, photographer Mimi Plumb returned to her childhood home to document a generation of disaffected youth growing up amid the drought-ridden California landscape.
Written by: Miss Rosen
A gripping portrait of the LAPD in the 1990s
A kinder gentler cop — As a ride-along photographer with the LAPD, photographer Joseph Rodriguez captured first hand the work of one of America's most notorious police forces.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Jamie Brisick reflects on losing his home to wildfires
A whole year later — One year since uncontrollable flames wreaked havoc through Malibu, Huck’s Contributing Editor looks back on what losing everything can teach you.
Written by: Jamie Brisick
Photos from California’s countercultural heyday
Alien days — Back in print for the first time since 1970, Dennis Stock’s California Trip serves as a radical visual history, depicting the Sunshine State at its heady peak.
Written by: Huck
Capturing the punks and poets of ’70s California
Breaking backstage — Throughout the decade, photographer Michael Jang made fake press passes to get access to gigs, conventions and Hollywood events.
Written by: Miss Rosen
California fires: what it’s like to lose your home to flames
Malibu burning — The Woolsey Fire started on November 8, 2018. It would go on to destroy over 1600 structures – including Jamie Brisick’s home. Two months later, he reflects on the blaze that engulfed his beloved Point Dume, in Malibu.
Written by: Jamie Brisick
The mysterious LA religion working to stop the apocalypse
The Aetherius Society — Since it was founded in the 1950s, the Aetherius Society has claimed to be responsible for preventing some of the world’s most deadly catastrophes. Writer Frank Martin spends two months at the secretive organisation’s LA branch to learn how they do it.
Written by: Frank Martin
Ed Templeton on Larry Clark's renegade style of photography
Kindred spirits — There is a lineage of photographers who shoot to shock, planting themselves in fringe-dwelling scenes with the eye of a lustful voyeur. Larry Clark was never one of them. His photographs of wayward teens bingeing on sex and drugs, and leaving 1960s America aghast, are moments that he lived. It’s in this brutal suburbia, in the faces of strung-out kids, that skateboarder Ed Templeton first realised that his own life could be a muse.
Written by: Ed Templeton
