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Photography

Photos celebrating indigenous Bolivian women in extreme sports

Photographer Celia D. Luna documents skaters, wrestlers and mountain climbers who also identify as 'cholitas' – a once derogatory term for indigenous women who endured decades of discrimination, but have come to represent an integral part of Bolivian national identity.

Written by: Isaac Muk

Photography

Brutal portraits showing the realistic side of pro-wrestling

Photographer Michael Watson explains how his candid backstage images capture the raw energy and larger than life personalities of some of wrestling's biggest stars.

Written by: Sean Neumann

Film

Inside the world of football’s unsung heroes: the referees

To mark the release of a new documentary following a diverse group of grassroots match officials in the UK, we spoke to two of its featured voices: aspirational family man Nigel Owen, and Lucy Clark, the world’s first openly trans referee and founder of all-trans football club TRUK United.

Written by: Jake Hall

Skate

90s skate prodigy Brandon Turner on addiction and recovery

Living the dream soon turned into a nightmare for skater Brandon Turner. Yet Turner eventually found a route to recovery and redemption through skateboarding.

Written by: Miss Rosen

Huck Docs

Watch Huck’s documentary Before the Storm at Outernet

Thousands of Londoners each day will see how the BikeStormz movement has transformed life for young riders in the capital.

Written by: Alex King

Football

The cost of living crisis is killing football

Premier League clubs spent a record £815m in the January transfer window, but community clubs are facing a financial squeeze that threatens the beautiful game from the ground up.

Written by: Fred Garratt-Stanley

Activism

The fight to get oil off Norway’s slopes

'We're running out of time' — Norway prides itself as a top winter sports destination while also being the largest fossil fuel producer in Western Europe. Now, skiers and snowboarders in the climate activist group Stopp Oljeletinga are urging their industry to cut ties with oil for good.

Written by: Sam Haddad

Huck 78

Josh Landau is giving psych rock a skate rat makeover

The guitar virtuoso, skate rebel and prolific frontman talks us through his formative stomping grounds in LA, skating the empty swimming pools of Beverly Hills, shredding atop billboards on Sunset Strip, and his psych-punk solo project Stolen Nova.

Written by: Tracy Kawalik

Surf

The film exposing surfing’s toxic supply chain

Made by two surfers from the north-east of England, 'The Big Sea' exposes the unlikely link between wetsuits and a small town in Louisiana where the risk of cancer is 50 times the national average for the United States.

Written by: Sam Haddad

Photography

Inside the UK’s only licensed bare knuckle fight club

Bradford-based photographer John Bolloten captures the brutal world of bare knuckle pit fighting in the north of England.

Written by: Isaac Muk

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