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Candid shots of Mexico City’s real gay underground

On the last car — New York photographer David Graham investigates the urban myths surrounding Mexico’s cruising scene, and uncovers a world of vibrant, unrivalled LGBT nightlife.

  • Photography
  • HUCK HQ

Capturing the nuances of life on the US-Mexico border

The Backs Of Men — Growing up on the US-Mexico border, Dominic Bracco II knows people who walk a fine line between right and wrong. He’s seen good folks do bad things. To capture that nuance, he put down his camera, picked up a pen and scripted the space in-between.

  • Magazine
  • Dominic Bracco II

Shooting love, life and death on the streets of Mexico

Sweet Dreams — Going beyond the stereotypes, Tripod City capture the cities of Mexico, focusing on the everyday experiences of real people.

  • Photography
  • Biju Belinky

The mundane real lives of Mexico’s star wrestlers

Outside the ring — Although worshipped while in the ring, Mexico’s star Lucha libre wrestlers live markedly different lives outside of it. Seila Montes Gonzalez shoots their story.

  • Reportage
  • Seila Montes Gonzalez

A young mother commutes from Mexico to the US

Huck Film: Mitad Y Mitad — Karla Nutter commutes every day from Juárez, Mexico to El Paso, Texas, straddling a line that her husband is barred from crossing. Her story is shared in Mitad Y Mitad (Half and Half), an original Huck film.

  • Film
  • Andrea Kurland

Young Mexican-Americans talk Trump, the wall, and uncertain futures

Life on the border — Donald Trump is leading the Republican Party charge to the White House. Just yesterday he visited Mexico City, reaffirming his vow to build a wall along their shared border, paid for, his insists, by Mexico. The rhetoric might grab headlines, but how do young Mexican-Americans living on the border feel about the world they know changing? Photojournalist and professor Adriana Yvette Monsalve asked her students to find out.

  • Activism
  • Adriana Yvette Monsalve

Video: Foster Huntington searches for Mexico’s uncharted waves

Waves on Mars — Filmmaker, photographer and adventurer Foster Huntington embarks on a sailboat voyage through Mexico’s Central Baja to look for undiscovered and inaccessible surf.

  • Surf
  • Alex King

In Pictures: Mario’s Maplés grotesque erotica parodies our desire for intimacy

Things That Inspire Me — Artist Mario Maplé’s discomforting biro illustrations caricature our dirtiest desires. We reached out to ask what gets his blood pumping - artistically, that is.

  • Art
  • Alex King

In Pictures: Old school Mexican crime photographs from the archive of Stefan Ruiz

Why the history of photography matters when we look at pictures of criminals — Huck interviews Stefan Ruiz, the photographer behind a new book on Mexican crime photography, to talk about El Chapo, the celebrity cult, fashion, and fantasy.

  • Photography
  • Joshua Gabert-Doyon

Video: War photographers reveal the long-term trauma of their difficult profession

"A death unrecorded is a death forgotten." — A six-part short film series explores the long-term psychological effects of documenting moments of conflict, from the civil war in Syria to domestic violence in New York.

  • Photography
  • Adam White

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