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Youthful joy & end-of-era poignancy at a London school prom

Leavers — For several years, Lewis Khan documented young people as they celebrated the last of their school days and the completion of their exams. The series is now collated in a new self-published photobook and short film.

  • Culture
  • Zoe Whitfield

Harry Gruyaert’s vintage, kaleidoscopic scenes of New York

A Sense of Place — For 50 years, the Belgian photographer and Magnum Photos member has been capturing NYC’s colourful chaos. A new photobook and exhibition showcase his unique, technicolour view of the city.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

In the pit at one of the UK’s last stock car & banger speedways

Stock Car Racing Isn’t Dead — Photographer Liam McCarthy spent time in and around the Arlington Raceway’s circuit, capturing the diehard community that keeps the sport alive.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk

A major Nan Goldin exhibition is coming to London

You Never Did Anything Wrong — Opening at the Hayward Gallery in November, the show will debut a new film from the artist and activist, alongside a slate of recent work.

  • Culture
  • Jack Dennison-Thompson
© Sara Bennett

Tender portraits of women serving life sentences in America

Looking Inside — While working as a public defender attorney in New York State, Sara Bennett found dilapidated prisons and forgotten people. Her new photobook harnesses the power of images and shines a humanising light on those imprisoned for serious crimes and their reintegration into society, while asking questions of the USA’s incarceration system.

  • Activism
  • Miss Rosen
Boys with bonfire
Tish Murtha © Ella Murtha

Tish Murtha’s searing documentation of broken Britain

Vandalism on a Grand Scale — Capturing youth unemployment and poverty in north-east England during the ’80s, the photographer never lived to see her work published. A new photobook by British Culture Archive brings her eye-opening work to light.

  • Activism
  • Miss Rosen

Sepia splashed memories of Britain’s ’90s squatting and free party scene

Bygones — Moving into a Hackney squat at the age of 19, Tom Hunter spent years living on London’s edges, while documenting the vibrant, creative community and culture that it enabled. Huck’s art director Sam White chats to him about the freedom that existed, the collectivism and what’s been lost over the decades since.

  • Culture
  • Samuel White
© Newsha Tavakolian

A melancholic portrait of youth, rebellion and womanhood in Iran

And They Laughed At Me — Newsha Tavakolian has worked as a photographer all her adult life, as Iran underwent change, upheaval and conflict. Her new photobook explores the formative years of her eye and art amid generational strife, hope and disappointment.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
Horishi / Tattoo Artist Horikazu. Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. Oct. 29, 2024. Photograph by Cory Lum/ 2024
© Cory Lum

The intricate, clandestine art of Japan’s traditional tattoos

Irezumi — Having emerged during the Edo Period centuries ago, inking skin has long been associated the country’s working class, and particularly Yakuza. A new book by Manami Okazaki explores the history and deep meaning of the practice, as well as the horishi who dedicate their lives to the needle.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk

Road tripping across 1970s America

73 Trip West — In 1973, Larry Racioppo set out from Brooklyn to California, armed with a medium format camera. For the first time in over half a century, roadside photographs from his trip have been unearthed.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

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