Jonathan Mehring Playlist
- Text by HUCK HQ
- Photography by Jonathan Mehring
Jonathan Mehring may be the most well-travelled skateboard photographer in the world.
For every trip he plans and shoots, there is usually a videographer along for the ride. Here are some of our favourite companion shorts.
Trans Siberian Railway
A psychedelic snapshot of skateboarding in Siberia.
India
“It’s not that easy to skate in the streets in India.”
The Amazon
“And there are rumours that fly around like about this thing, if you piss off the side of the boat, it will swim up your pee stream six feet into your dick.”
Vietnam
“There were so many times on the road when I was like, ‘Why are we doing this?’ I don’t need any help getting hurt, I get hurt enough skating.”
Latest on Huck
Exploring the impact of colonialism on Australia’s Indigenous communities
New exhibition, ‘Under a Southern Star: Identity and Environment in Australian Photography’ interrogates the use of photography as a tool of objectification and subjugation.
Written by: Miss Rosen
My sister disappeared when we were children. Years later, I retraced her footsteps
After a car crash that saw Magnum photographer Lindokuhle Sobekwa hospitalised, his sister ran away from their home in South Africa. His new photobook, I Carry Her Photo With Me, documents his journey in search of her.
Written by: Lindokuhle Sobekwa
Inside New York City’s hedonistic 2000s skateboarding scene
New photobook, ‘Epicly Later’d’ is a lucid survey of the early naughties New York skate scene and its party culture.
Written by: Isaac Muk
Did we create a generation of prudes?
Has the crushing of ‘teen’ entertainment and our failure to represent the full breadth of adolescent experience produced generation Zzz? Emma Garland investigates.
Written by: Emma Garland
How to shoot the world’s most gruelling race
Photographer R. Perry Flowers documented the 2023 edition of the Winter Death Race and talked through the experience in Huck 81.
Written by: Josh Jones
An epic portrait of 20th Century America
‘Al Satterwhite: A Retrospective’ brings together scenes from this storied chapter of American life, when long form reportage was the hallmark of legacy media.
Written by: Miss Rosen