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Video: Mad bikers tear it up on the Alpine ice at Snow Quake
Sideburn x Deus Ex Machina — Europe’s finest custom motorbikes go head-to-head around a hazardous icy track high in the Italian Alps. This is the notorious Dirt Quake - on ice.
Written by: Alex King
The time New York's early-90's club kids met Joan Rivers
"Meet five people with a dream, and a wardrobe from hell" — Buried in the deeper recesses of YouTube is a 1993 appearance on The Joan Rivers Show by an array of iconic New York club kids, a couple of years before the scene imploded in bloody violence with the now infamous murder of Andre 'Angel' Melendez. Leigh Bowery, Amanda Lepore and Kabuki Starshine are just some of the NY legends talking the scene and parading their pioneering fashion on daytime TV.
Written by: Adam White
In Pictures: Another perspective on America’s misunderstood, poorest region
Looking at Appalachia — Appalachia is synonymous with poverty in the United States, a wasteland of dirty kids in barren shacks if you believe the news. But one photographer is exposing the bigger picture, one crowd-sourced image at a time.
Written by: Roger May
The Forecast 2016: Photography Books
Arcana: Books on the Arts — What’s in store for 2016? Lee Kaplan, co-founder of Arcana Books, L.A.’s massive art-book shop, looks into his crystal ball.
Written by: Joshua Gabert-Doyon
In Pictures: Looking back at the Arab Spring five years on
Capturing a moment in time — On the fifth anniversary of protests in Egypt’s capital, we asked Huck photographers Guy Martin, Pauline Beugnies, Lindsay Mackenzie and Monique Jaques about the stills they remember most.
Written by: Joshua Gabert-Doyon
In Pictures: Bikers, punks and goths in Tbilisi
Counterculture in the Caucasus — Photographer Onnik Krikorian's new series on the Georgian underground.
Written by: Joshua Gabert-Doyon
Video: No-bullshit New Yorkers searching for solitude in the madness of the Big Apple
In glorious black and white — Inspired by everyday, take-no-bullshit New Yorkers who hustle through life and fight to survive, documentarian Alexander Hankoff has launched NYChapters, a new short film series about New Yorkers finding their own small spaces of peace and creativity.
Written by: Adam White
Virtual Reality: the indie filmmakers putting you at the heart of the story
Sundance embraces VR — Mainstream studios are already exploiting virtual reality, looking for the next big thing. Now indie filmmakers at Sundance have begun using the technology to enhance hard stories on social conflict, including police shootings and sexual harassment. But is VR just another gimmick?
Written by: Adam White
In Pictures: What does a war photographer shoot after the guns fall silent?
Yan Morvan: Battlefields — Photographer Yan Morvan repeatedly cheated death to become one of the best war photographers of his generation. His ambitious new project looks at historic ancient and modern battle sites after the troops have gone home.
Written by: Alex King
What can walking Greece’s ancient marathon route teach us about the country today?
In Pictures: Greece at the crossroads of Europe — Documentary photographer Caro Hutchings’s walk from Marathon to Athens revealed a country once again battling for its identity and survival.
Written by: Alex King
