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Teenage Utopia: Skating Through the Lockdown

Skateboarding and unity in Brussels — The Paris attacks pushed Brussels into the centre of Europe's debate about immigration, intolerance and radicalisation. Ursulines skatepark offers a refreshing counterpoint, here kids from all backgrounds skate together in peace.

Written by: Alex King

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Video: Skateistan's new year's resolution is to bring skateboards to kids everywhere

Become a 'Citizen of Skateistan' — Groundbreaking NGO Skateistan has shown how skateboarding can be a force for social change in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa. Now they need your help to keep moving forward.

Written by: Alex King

Skate

Mimi Knoop is paving the way to gold for women’s skateboarding

Our day will come — The potential inclusion of skateboarding in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics divides opinion. But the potential benefits for women’s skateboarding could be huge, explains Mimi Knoop.

Written by: Hannah Bailey

Photography

Meet the Brussels skaters overcoming cultural barriers to create their own utopia

Skateboarding and integration — The media has painted Brussels as a city of immigrant ghettos, intolerance and radicalisation. But at Les Ursulines skate park, kids from all backgrounds skate together in peace.

Written by: Alex King

Skate

Meet the pioneers of Palestine’s skateboarding scene

Skateboarding knows no religion — Can non-profit project Skatepal help unite the youth in a divided land?

Written by: King Adz

Skate

A young and not-so-young Sydney photographer celebrate skateboarding in the harbour city

AJP & Mike O'Meally — Nobody knows the Sydney skate scene like Mike O’Meally and Andrew James Peters: two of the city’s finest photographic exports. HUCK sits down to chat magic moments and throwing cameras in bins.

Written by: Oliver Pelling

Photography

Photographer Luke Overin reveals the dystopian world of modern Britain

Ultimate Metal Breakdown — South London-based photographer Luke Overin explores a weird world of suburban retail parks and youthful escapism in his new show at Huck’s 71a Gallery.

Written by: Alex King

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Top skate photographer Atiba Jefferson reveals his earliest, and favourite, images

Oakley In Residence Sydney — To celebrate his retrospective exhibition in Sydney, we catch up with Atiba Jefferson about the skateboarding photographs that have made him who he is.

Written by: Oliver Pelling

Photography

Common Strangers brings together the best emerging skate photographers

Always pushing — Photographer and curator Lola Paprocka on how skate and DIY culture unites her showcase of emerging photographers.

Written by: Alex King

Culture

Skate video series Parisii maps each of Paris’ twenty arrondissements

Parisii XIV: The penultimate episode — Europe's top skaters leave their mark on every neighbourhood in Paris with a killer edit in each one.

Written by: Alex King

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