Jeremy Corbyn on why we must never lose hope
As the Season of Hope, our editorial partnership with Peace & Justice Project draws to an end, they look back at the year that was. With the calendar year drawing to a close, the ‘Season Of Hope’...
View ArticleFive of the best only-in-Huck stories of 2023
Revisit some of our favourite deep dives of the last year, that you couldn’t have read anywhere else. With the wild, unforgiving year that 2023 was coming to a close, we’re looking back at some of the...
View ArticleFive inspiring stories of resistance and rebellion from 2023
Reflecting on our favourite features of people paddling against the flow, fighting for a better world. While the past year’s global outlook has become ever darker, we’ve been spotlighting the...
View ArticleFive original photography deep dives from 2023
Looking back at some of the best visual reporting from the past year, taking us from Himalayan mountains to Manchester moshpits. Across 2023 we sent some of the world’s best photographers and visual...
View Article2023 Wrapped-Up – Huck’s December Newsletter
Emma Garland’s final monthly dispatch of the year takes in the highs and lows of culture and activism in 2023: from Wonka and Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski trial to the loss of humanity in Gaza. Hi, I’m Emma...
View ArticleAn insider’s view of Mexico City’s LGBTQ+ community
One photographer’s intimate look inside communal joy and queer spirit in the Mexican capital. One afternoon in 2021, photographer Mayan Toledano was sitting on a pile of clothes on the floor of her...
View ArticleInside Kazakhstan’s secret drag scene
The gay club in Astana, Kazakhstan is unassuming, hidden behind a plain door in one of the city’s many Soviet-era housing blocks. Inside, it’s the centre of an entire community. At 11pm, the sun has...
View ArticleIn search of authentic Japanese rope bondage culture
(NSFW) Shibari’s popularity has boomed worldwide. Yet in Tokyo, Kinbaku remains an underground affair, connected to the sex industry and practiced by cult icons like Akira Naka. We’re in a small room...
View ArticleBlindboy Boatclub on the power of words
Huck #80’s artist in residence talks about his smash hit podcast, bestselling books, psychotherapy and unlocking people’s power. Musician, comedian, podcaster, writer and philosopher, Blindboy...
View ArticleDocumenting the Women’s Peace Movement in Congo
In 2021 photographer Hugh Kinsella Cunningham and writer Camille Maubert teamed up with local correspondent Sifa Bahati to begin capturing the stories of women mediating on the frontlines. Over the...
View ArticleCapturing the organic beauty of birds in flight
In his new photobook Ornithographies, photographer Xavi Bou documents natural movement in a radically original take on wildlife photography. One afternoon over a decade ago, Xavi Bou was walking...
View ArticleLife on the edge of Canada’s eastern shores
Melinda Blauvelt’s intimate photos of a small fishing village in New Brunswick offer a look inside a way of life that is quickly receding into the past. In 1971, Melinda Blauvelt became the first...
View ArticleThe future is written
Ilana Kaplan explains how being a media journalist has become so bleak and why humans are more vital than ever to deliver the news we consume. The current state of media journalism could perhaps be...
View ArticleRevisiting FESTAC ‘77, the largest pan-African festival in World history
A new exhibition takes a photographic look at the event which was envisioned as a restoration of power, solidarity and genius after 500 years of subjugation. In January 1977, they came 17,000 strong...
View ArticleA raw journey into America’s rebellious youth culture
Wesley Knoll’s newly published photobook ‘Fading Smile’ is an unflinching window into life as a young person in the USA. A few years ago, photographer Wesley Knoll was with his friend in Humboldt...
View ArticleYoung, Gifted and Black: A Portrait of South Africa Today
Meet the “Ama2000s” refashioning the landscape of art, fashion and music in their own image. With the collapse of apartheid under the weight of international sanctions and the election of Nelson...
View ArticleGordon Ramsay introduces Sandwich issue #8
The world famous chef takes the helm as guest editor of the 8th edition of our sister magazine, Sandwich, in the Chef’s Special issue. I first came across Sandwich Magazine when I picked up the BBQ...
View ArticleInside the secret club night bringing the party to Pakistan
Meet the party pioneers making space for diverse dance floors in a city with no record shops, night clubs or club culture. Spaces Between the Beats is a series spotlighting music and cultural...
View ArticleA photographer’s search for the Black Country
Tom Hicks’s long term photo project seeks to define what the Black Country is, through signage, fonts and words. Nobody knows definitively where the Black Country is. While it still has a distinct...
View ArticleInside the weird, shady world of click farms
Jack Latham’s new photobook, Beggar’s Honey, is an unflinching look behind the curtain of the endless stream of content that dominates our lives. Early in 2023, photographer Jack Latham was in Hong...
View ArticleA tender exploration of life on the margins of Bristol
Bristolian photographer Chris Hoare’s new photobook shows a different side to the West Country city. On the afternoon of June 7, 2020, photographer Chris Hoare had just returned to his home in Bristol...
View Article“A green favela”: The reality of life in the Brazilian Amazon
Photographer Tommaso Protti’s new monograph is a haunting vision of humanity’s devastating impact on the world’s largest forest. A decade ago, Tommaso Protti travelled to Brazil’s northern Pará State,...
View ArticleThe trans boxer fighting to open up combat sports for queer people
Trans boxers are banned from licensed fights in England, so Jill Leflour is going blow-for-blow to end trans exclusion in sport. “There’s so much to love about boxing,” explains amateur boxer Jill...
View ArticleAn oral history of the Village Voice
The paper, which was the first to cover hip-hop, the avant-garde art scene, and the AIDS crisis with urgency and seriousness, is now immortalised in a new book by ex-staffer Tricia Romano. Tricia...
View ArticleJack Rooke and Jon Pointing on Big Boys, masculinity and friendship
In the latest edition of our Daddy Issues column, the stars of Channel 4’s Big Boys discuss not judging books by their covers, powerful working class women and the dangers of Piña Coladas. Jack...
View ArticleWe end at the start: Huck’s January 2024 Newsletter
Emma Garland’s first monthly dispatch of the year takes in a bonfire of culture: Pitchfork’s demi-demise, the slow death of music writing and death of venues. Hi, I’m Emma Garland, former Digital...
View Article“My torturers tried to silence me, but art gave me back my voice”
How therapy, writing and art helped Nasrin Parvaz find meaning and salvation after her imprisonment and abuse by the Iranian regime. More than thirty years ago, I suffered terribly at the hands of the...
View ArticleA vivid history of LGBTQ+ counterculture in 1980s New York
With the exhibition ‘Drag Show’, curator Paul Baker Prindle revisits this fabled chapter of LGBTQ+ history, celebrating the iconoclasts, radicals, and renegades who forged their own path during the...
View ArticleIn Photos: The secret gay language still in use today
A hot soup of influences and cultures, Polari offered queer people protection and freedom to communicate Professor Paul Baker tells us alongside a photo essay by photographer Felix Pilgrim. “I like...
View ArticleIn Photos: One night in an unlicensed boxing club
The one 1994 evening that photographer Bruce Gilden spent in a blue collar boxing club in suburban Kent is the subject of his new photobook. One evening in 1994, photographer Bruce Gilden took his...
View ArticleInside life on Tijuana’s garbage dumps
Jack Lueders-Booth spent nine summers documenting a community who scratched out a living among trash. In May 1991, Jack Lueders-Booth travelled from his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Tijuana,...
View ArticleHow splitboarding is breaking new ground
Wandering celebrates splitboarding and ski touring, which allow humans to go beyond the resorts, to slow down and connect with self, one-another and nature. Wandering, to travel aimlessly from place...
View ArticleI claimed asylum on religious grounds - this is not a "loophole"
Escaping religious persecution in Iran seeking refuge became an urgent necessity for survival for Ali and his family. Last month’s brutal chemical attack in Clapham, suspected to have been carried out...
View ArticleInside the wild world of online pig racing
The League of Pigs released its first video in 2020 and has since amassed almost 100,000 subscribers and millions of views, but the creator remains elusive. “Tonight, we dance, we drink tequila and we...
View ArticleThe sign language interpreter changing the way we listen to music
Amber Galloway doesn’t just do sign language to music – she uses American Sign Language (ASL) and her body, face and vibes to channel the live experience and energy to deaf and hard-of-hearing fans....
View ArticleMy trans son’s life depends on compassion not political point scoring
“I was scared every time he left the house,” writes the parent of a trans child following the murder of trans teen Brianna Ghey and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s comments mocking trans people this...
View ArticleA glimpse inside the world’s most secretive arms fairs
Photojournalist Nikita Teryoshin spent eight years travelling to “defence shows” around the world, capturing the surreal and sickening ways weapons of destruction are bought and sold. On January 21,...
View ArticleDirector Steve McQueen explores life under occupation
Past and present collide in Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter’s Occupied City, an experimental documentary about Amsterdam under Nazi occupation. The word ‘occupation’ hangs over daily life like a dark...
View ArticleOur message to politicians in 2024: ignore young voters at your peril
With Gen Z and Millennials making up the largest percentage of UK population in 2024, Co-Director of Green New Deal Rising Fatima Ibrahim writes that the organisation is putting politicians on notice....
View Article“We are constantly fighting with demons”: Emin Özmen on Turkey’s turbulent...
The Magnum agency photographer talks about his new book covering protests, political crises, and human tragedy. The assassination of Sakine Cansız – a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)...
View ArticleStriking photos of the Royal Shrovetide football match
The centuries old tradition sees the town of Ashbourne transformed for two days every February. Ashbourne is a small, picturesque market town on the edge of the Peak district. Home to just under...
View ArticleRoad Tripping Across 1980s America
After graduating university, photographer Sage Sohier set forth on a series of adventures with nothing but a paper map as her guide. At the outset of the pandemic, American photographer Sage Sohier...
View ArticlePhotos capturing joy and community of Black female and non-binary American...
In her new photobook I Just Wanna Surf, photographer Gabriella Angotti-Jones goes back to her roots and faces up to traumas of her past. Growing up in Orange County, California, Gabriella...
View ArticleMeet the artist behind the Scottish Curling Championship’s stunning ice art
Hendrick’s Gin teamed up with multidisciplinary artist Orla Stevens to add a splash of colour to this year’s competition. If you happened to tune in to this year’s Scottish Curling Championship...
View ArticleInside the exhibition raising funds for the guardians of the Amazon Rainforest
From The Ashes brings 29 Indigenous and non-Indigenous contemporary artists together in support for Xingu Indigenous communities. This week Migrate Art, the pioneering arts organisation that harnesses...
View ArticlePride and Privilege: challenging the myths of white America
Photographer Kris Graves’ new monograph, Privileged Mediocrity explores the American landscape at the dawn of the 21st century. On October 20 2021, the infamous bronze statue of defeated Confederate...
View ArticleInside Ukraine’s queer resistance
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine’s queer community has been fighting back on many fronts, from art to activism and rave culture. The bass rolling through this former industrial complex is...
View ArticleThe elusive street artist taking on the world
From notes left on 4x4 owners’ windscreens questioning their penis size to hacking London Underground adverts Foka Wolf is on a mission to make you think. Subversive street artist Foka Wolf has an air...
View ArticleA 90s tale of sex, drugs and rock & roll in New York
In new book, The Ballad of Speedball Baby, Ali Smith revisits an era that glitters like shards of broken glass scattered on the sidewalk. Growing up in Manhattan during the 1970s and ‘80s,...
View ArticleA gritty portrait of radicals and upstarts in 1980s Hulme
Photographer Richard Davis revisits this electric era from his youth in new book, Hulme (Manchester). Back in 1979, Kevin Cummins captured the nihilistic beauty of Hulme in his stark black and white...
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