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In photos: The newsagents keeping print alive

Save the stands — With Huck 83 hitting shelves around the world, we met a few people who continue to stock print magazines, defying an enduringly tough climate for physical media and the high street.

  • Huck 83: Life Is A Journey Issue
  • Ella Glossop

The quiet, introspective delight of Finland’s car cruising scene

Pilluralli — In the country’s small towns and rural areas, young people meet up to drive and hang out with their friends. Jussi Puikkonen spent five years photographing its idiosyncratic pace.

  • Culture
  • Josh Jones

The last days of St Agnes Place, London’s longest ever running squat

Off the grid — Photographer Janine Wiedel spent four years documenting the people of the Kennington squat, who for decades made a forgotten row of terraced houses a home.

  • Activism
  • Isaac Muk
© Mitsutoshi Hanaga. Courtesy of Mitsutoshi Hanaga Project Committee

How Japan revolutionised art & photography in the ’60s and ’70s

From Angura to Provoke — A new photobook chronicles the radical avant-garde scene of the postwar period, whose subversion of the medium of image making remains shocking and groundbreaking to this day.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

In photos: The boys of the Bibby Stockholm

Bibby Boys — A new exhibition by Theo McInnes and Thomas Ralph documents the men who lived on the three-story barge in Dorset, giving them the chance to control their own narrative. 

  • Activism
  • Thomas Ralph

The wild, gruelling beauty of fell running

Winner Gets Cake — With no marked route and often brutal conditions, the “quintessentially British sport” is the subject of a new joint film by TCO and Rab. Hannah Bentley explores its vertical climbs, downhill dashes and punk roots.

  • Sport
  • Hannah Bentley

In photos: Lebanon’s women against a backdrop of war

Where Do I Go? لوين روح — As war breaks out in the Middle East once again, we spotlight Rania Matar’s powerful new photobook, which empowers women of her home country through portraiture.

  • Activism
  • Miss Rosen
© The Estate of Larry Sultan

The strange suburban mundanity of San Fernando Valley’s porn industry

The Valley — Legendary photographer Larry Sultan grew up in the northern Los Angeles suburb, which also happened to be the 20th century epicentre of the country’s adult film industry. Spending days on set shooting life behind the scenes, his now-canon series blurred fantasy, desire and domesticity. 

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk
© Charles Williams (1908-1986)

Historic photographs from the heyday of the Black press

Black Photojournalism — A new book immortalises the work of 57 Black photographers reporting in the mid-20th century for Black newspapers and magazines. Covering the Civil Rights Movement, Jesse Jackson and more, the pictures are part history, part art.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

Lisette Model’s ’50s jazz pictures were nearly lost to McCarthyism

The Jazz Pictures — A landmark new book edited by Audrey Sands uncovers nearly 1,500 photographs from the genre’s golden age previously thought to be lost. Featuring the likes of Billie Holliday, Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong, they tell both a story of music and resistance in the face of oppression.

  • Music
  • Miss Rosen

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