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Adventures with the world’s oldest off-road cycling club

On yer bike — Formed in 1955, the Rough-Stuff Fellowship is a pioneering gang of adventurists who believe that you can go anywhere on two wheels. Over 60 years after it started, an archive of the club’s defining moments is finally coming to light.

  • Bike
  • Niall Flynn

A celebration of black womanhood in South Africa

Collective memories — Following the death of her mother, Lebohang Kganye embarked on a photography project which saw her recreating archive snapshots from old family albums – exploring grief, history and family dynamics in the process.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

Intimate portaits of Havana’s Chinese community

El Barrio Chino — Though Havana’s Chinatown was once the largest in Latin America, the Chinese Cuban population of today is ageing and diminished. However, the community that remains are dedicated to preserving their own history and culture.

  • Photography
  • Huck

Hardcore soul: photos of big nights out in ’90s Britain

On a mad one — For Alberto Guerrini’s Gabber Eleganza project, photographer Ewen Spencer maps the similarities between Britain’s northern soul and hardcore scenes – exploring their shared devotion, frenzy and euphoria.

  • Photography
  • Niall Flynn

Black Brazilians reflect on life under Bolsonaro

‘Racism is built into our culture’ — It's been four months since neofascist Jair Bolsonaro was sworn into office. Since then, he's loosened gun-ownership laws, proposed a draconian anti-crime bill, and advanced widerspread environmental deregulation, with more savagery yet to come. So what is the outlook from Salvador, the Brazilian city with the highest population of afro-descendants?

  • Activism
  • Lucca Messer

A visual history of resistance in New York City

People power — For decades, photographer Builder Levy has used his camera to address systems of oppression and injustice in the US: ‘The humanity I was seeing and trying to capture in my pictures – I looked at as a way of countering negativity.’

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

The life and times of a café society call girl

Susi Wyss explains it all — ‘Acid, mescaline, S&M, and paddling pools’: sex worker Susi Wyss shares her stories from Europe’s most decadent era.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

The history of art and rave culture in ’90s Poland

140 beats per minute — This week, the Tate Modern is celebrating the aesthetics of the country’s rave scene, with an evening of films focused on the movement‘s key figures.

  • Music
  • Eric Thorp

Up close and personal with the women of the Yakuza

Partners in crime — For her series I give you my life (命預けます), photographer Chloé Jafé infiltrated the infamous Japanese crime syndicate, capturing the often overlooked lives of Yakuza wives.

  • Photography
  • Eva Clifford

The style & grace of London’s white garment churches

Congregation — Sophie Green’s new book documents the world of London’s Aladura Spiritualists – a community of churchgoers who’ve created an intimate social space in the English capital.

  • Photography
  • Jacob Charles Wilson

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