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As Hanoi’s nightlife faces raids & repression, its underground scene modulates

Spaces Between the Beats — Tensions between nightlife and authorities have grown in recent times, as police target venues and their patrons with increasingly frequent drug testing and searches. With clubs becoming hostile spaces as a result, Hanoi’s electronic music community is finding new spaces and forms of expression, reports Martin Guttridge-Hewitt.

  • Music
  • Martin Guttridge-Hewitt

The cathartic roar of Vietnam’s hardcore punk scene

Going hardcore in Saigon — In a country that has gradually opened up in recent decades, a burgeoning youth movement is creating an outlet for youth frustration and anxiety. Frank L’Opez reports from the country’s biggest city’s underground.

  • Huck 83: Life Is A Journey Issue
  • Frank L’Opez

An intimate portrait of Vietnam half a century after the war

Returning to the country that her family had fled, photographer Tracy Dong charts her journey self-discovery, community, and connection in the new book, Tell Me About Saigon.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

Hackney’s Pho Mile and its history of resistance

Home Away From Home — For decades, an area of East London has served as a vital community hub for Vietnamese people looking for a taste of home.

  • Activism
  • Georgina Quanch

Rediscovered photos from the set of ‘Apocalypse Now’

Welcome to the jungle — Photographer Chas Gerretsen spent six months chronicling one of the most harrowing and poignant war films ever made. He recounts the turmoil that took place both on and off the set.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

Vietnamese migrants are set to face cruel deportation flight

Callous system — Campaigners are calling on the government to stop a deportation flight carrying up to 22 migrants and to bring an end to the continued criminalisation of those seeking help and refuge.

  • Activism
  • Ben Smoke

A post-war study of modern Vietnam, in photos

Changing face — Photographer Simone Sapienza shoots the contradictions of contemporary Vietnam – a country in transition, spearheaded by a young, energetic population.

  • Photography
  • Huck

The changing face of Hanoi, in pictures

A post-war portrait — Over a period spanning three decades, photographer William E. Crawford captures the Vietnamese capital’s gradual modernisation for a new book, Hanoi Streets.

  • Photography
  • HUCK HQ

Remembering the life and work of Philip Jones Griffiths

1936 – 2008 — On the ten-year anniversary of his death, a new exhibition brings together two of the Welsh photojournalist’s most significant bodies of work: shots of Britain taking between 1950 - 1970, and his acclaimed coverage of the Vietnam War.

  • Photography
  • Niall Flynn

Bikers, punks and metalheads: The secret side of Vietnam

Zine scene — Photographer Neil Massey spent six years living in Vietnam. Now, in his first collection of self-published zines, he captures the hidden corners of the hectic city.

  • Zine Scene
  • Biju Belinky

The photographer who infiltrated US prisons during the Vietnam War

A conversation with the dead — When Danny Lyon infiltrated the Texan prison system during the Vietnam War, he captured a portrait of America that was propaganda free. But he didn’t do it alone. His new book 'Conversations with the Dead' contains the artwork and letters of prisoner #122054, a kid doing life called Billy McCune.

  • Culture
  • Danny Lyon / Alex King

Bloody Chunks: Vietnam's underground metal scene

Fade to Black — Photographer Neil Massey captures a perfect marriage of brutal energy and hardcore fandom in Saigon's fiercest subculture.

  • Photography
  • Cian Traynor

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