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Spending a year undercover with the Alt-Right

Hope not hate — 25-year-old graduate student Patrik Hermansson set up a fake identity to get under the skin of the Alt-Right, putting himself face to face with neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Here, he shares his story.

Written by: Alex Robert Ross

Photography

The bleak beauty of England’s forgotten towns

Melancholy mysticism — Photographer John Spinks shoots the changing face of a small British mining town for his latest book, The New Village – a project he shot over 15 years.

Written by: Dominique Sisley

Photography

Fading glory: Inside the North’s forgotten dog racing scene

‘A massive dysfunctional family’ — Once an integral part of Newcastle’s cultural heritage, whippet racing is now facing extinction. Here, we pay tribute to one of Northern England’s most novel subcultures.

Written by: Dominique Sisley

Photography

Exploring the strange, secretive lives of England’s adult babies

Nappies, bears and bubbles — Polly Borland’s iconic ‘90s photo series, The Babies, explores one of the world’s most maligned and marginalised sexual fetishes.

Written by: Dominique Sisley

Photography

The paranormal, the Pagan and the posers of Solstice at Stonehenge

Summer Solstice — For the past two years, photographer Sophie Green has headed to Wiltshire to capture the magic and mystery of the centuries-old Solstice celebrations.

Written by: Biju Belinky

Photography

A peek inside Britain's online kink community

A/S/L? — In Sex Site, Joshua T Gibbons shows the human side of the web's kink community through intimate portraits of people he meets online.

Written by: Biju Belinky

Photography

Photographing UK punks before the movement took over

The Spirit of 76 — Music journalist John Ingham photographed and interviewed the original punks, before the movement hit the tabloids. In his book, The Spirit of 76, we see the year that changed UK music forever through the eyes of an insider.

Written by: Biju Belinky

Photography

'Great photographers need determination not talent'

Advice from Chris Killip — Photographer Chris Killip captured the North of England's deindustrialisation in a way no one else did. Now, almost three decades later, he looks back at what it takes to create images that truly record a place and time.

Written by: Biju Belinky

Photography

Capturing what it means to be young and in London in 2017

Looking forward — Julian Mährlein is the photographer capturing London's young people on their own terms.

Written by: Biju Belinky

Film

My mother, the punk rocker

Poly Styrene — The story of iconic punk and frontwoman Poly Styrene will soon be hitting our screens, brought to life using her own diaries and the voice of her daughter, Celeste Bell.

Written by: Biju Belinky

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