Culture
“Why ask mum? Mum doesn’t have a six pack”: Sky Yang on teen Google entanglement
Dear Google — The ESEA filmmaker’s latest piece explores coming-of-age in the information era, along with the added tension of racial dynamics in a predominantly white world. Here, he explains how and why he made it.
Written by: Sky Yang
Eerie, strangely evocative photos of container ships at sea
Cargo — Global cargo ships are the lifeblood of modern globalisation and neoliberalism. Richard Misrach’s new photobook focuses the lens on their presence, hiding in plain sight.
Written by: Miss Rosen
World’s first youth culture museum is opening in London
Music, subculture and style — The Museum of Youth Culture will be opening in Camden in December, with 6,500 sq ft of space.
Written by: Isaac Muk
Remembering Clark Henley’s ’80s cult classic The Butch Manual
The New Drag — The playful book is back in print more than 40 years since it was first published. We revisit its gender-subverting fun and lasting influence.
Written by: Miss Rosen
New York Fashion Week’s true soul lives in the streets
The people’s runway — For a week, the city floods with celebrities, influencers and glitzy afterparties, but year-round real self-expression takes place everywhere. Tom ‘TBow’ Bowden took his camera to NYC’s biggest catwalk.
Written by: Isaac Muk
Inside the bedrooms of American youth during the ’80s and ’90s
Teenagers in Their Bedrooms — Before the turn of the millennium, photographer Adrienne Salinger noticed that a creative, opinionated cohort were underrepresented in wider conversations – Gen X teens. Pictured in their home sanctuaries, they form a luminous portrait of subcultures and styles of the time.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Classic ’80s NYC hip-hop film Wild Style is being remastered
Bronx breaks — Created by Charlie Ahearn, the part-documentary, part-fiction movie captured the genre’s early style and music, as well as its intertwined relationship with breakdance and graffiti culture.
Written by: Isaac Muk
Merlin Daleman’s stark portrait of time-trapped Britain
Mutiny — Created in the wake of the Brexit referendum, the photographer’s debut book is a years-long photographic survey of economic inequality, and of towns and cities left behind as London continues to develop.
Written by: Isaac Muk
How Santa Monica Blvd inspired queer classic film Hustler White
Baal — Rick Castro’s new exhibition explores his journey from photographing male sex workers in LA to creating one of the most shocking LGBTQ+ films of all time.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Surreal celeb turns and creeping surveillance: Goodbye 2025’s endless bummer
Huck’s August dispatch — Justin Bieber’s stock up, Lana Del Rey’s down? The Sydney Sweeney jeans fiasco? Newsletter columnist Emma Garland rounds up a strange, psychedelic summer in culture.
Written by: Emma Garland
