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Martha Cooper: The photographer who introduced graffiti to the world

Creative Decay — Martha Cooper’s photographs of New York graffiti in the seventies and eighties helped catapult hip hop around the globe. When Huck met Martha in 2007, she showed us the kids that first took her underground.

  • Photography
  • Andrea Kurland

DAMEHT: The punks keeping NYC’s rebellious spirit alive

Resurrecting an ‘80s counterculture icon — DAMEHT team up with artist, photographer and Lower East Side legend Clayton Patterson to release a limited edition version of the iconic Clayton Cap.

  • Music
  • Alex King

The lost street gangs of NYC’s Lower East Side

Unseen America — The uniformed street gangs who inspired cult classic The Warriors were violent pillars of community identity, before being swept away by gentrification and the commercialisation of the drug trade.

  • Culture
  • Alex King

How cycling through NYC fuels creativity and inspiration

My New York — Artist Daniel Shea explains how cycling has given him an intimate and inspiring relationship with the soul of New York City. In a story from The Commuter Journal – a cycling paper made by Huck and Levi’s® Commuter™.

  • Outdoors
  • Daniel Shea

Radical creativity connects Tom Sachs with 'makers' across the globe

The Curse of Creating — Tom Sachs is a sculptor, probably best known for his elaborate recreations of various modern icons, all of them masterpieces of engineering and design. With his new show now open in New York City this month, we look back at our interview with Tom back in 2013.

  • Art
  • Jamie Brisick

The NYC doctor changing lives by removing gang tattoos for free

From teardrops, swastikas and gang insignia to fresh starts — Dr David Ores is on a quest to change lives by removing bad tattoos from former gang members, ex-convicts and victims of human trafficking - free of charge.

  • Culture
  • Alfred Rinaldi

A personal interview with Jonathan Shaw: writer, tattooist, hellraiser & 'anti-hero of the new age'

A Curious Student of Life — Jonathan Shaw travelled the world and left a red-hot mark on the people and places he encountered, but the real adventure, he insists, is the one you start when you get back home.

  • Art
  • Shelley Jones

Real kids from cult Larry Clark film Kids are making a doc about what actually went down

Behind-the-scenes expose on 20th anniversary — Hamilton Harris – the blunt-rolling kid from Larry Clark's seminal film Kids – is raising funds for a new doc that will explore the real lives and stories that inspired the cult classic.

  • Film
  • Shelley Jones

Josh Stewart might be the guardian angel of New York skateboarding

Static filmmaker fights the California monopoly — Navigating New York City is tough enough, especially when you’re up against skateboarding’s West Coast empire.

  • Skate
  • Anthony Pappalardo

The world's most popular underground race series comes to London

Interview: Red Hook Crit — We catch up with David Trimble, founder of Brooklyn-born race The Red Hook Crit, to find out why his high-octane wheel-around is gaining traction all over the world.

  • Bike
  • Steve Turner

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