Culture
How do we cut down fashion’s impact on the planet?
Up-cycling into the future — The C/O Cheap Monday project seeks to make fashion more sustainable through a garment-recycling programme and a new collection made from up-cycled material.
Written by: HUCK HQ
We went to a gun show to talk to Trump's supporters
Disunited States: Into Trumpland — In rural America, voters turned out to support Donald Trump in their hoards. We head to the small town of Perry, which is hosting a gun show, to hear voters' thoughts.
Written by: Michael Segalov
Martin Parr on the timeless power of photobooks
Seeing the bigger picture — To mark the launch of Magnum Photobook – a 'greatest hits' of visual storytellers – photographer Martin Parr underlines the form's importance in a world of instant images.
Written by: Noora Ismail
The ghostly aftermath of Japan's nuclear disaster
The Fallout — Five years on from Fukushima, its people are still fending for themselves – but photographer Dominic Nahr is making sure they're not forgotten, seeking answers in a cloud of confusion.
Written by: Dominic Nahr
Venice: How a forgotten corner of ‘70s LA gave birth to modern skateboarding
Raising the ghosts of Dogtown — Writer Joe Donnelly’s essay ‘Venice Bohemia: From Abbot Kinney To The Z-Boys’ explores how the crumbling, surfer’s mecca of Venice in the 1970s gave rise to the legendary Z-Boys and skateboarding as we know it. It appears in ‘Los Angeles in the 1970s: Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine’, a collection of essays and short stories that attempts to fill a gap in the literature about culture during one of the City of Angels’ most vibrant decades. It also includes the ‘Cruising Van Nuys’ photo essay by Rick McCloskey, featured here.
Written by: Joe Donnelly
The Atlanta skate park that fought back against gentrification - and won
Disunited States: Black Blocks — Built in 1996 in time for Atlanta to host the Olympic Games, Black Blocks was a small urban square designed to spruce up the highway, but it quickly became an important spot for Atlanta’s skaters. Gentrification is in full swing in the city, and when the authorities tried to shut it down earlier this year, the community rallied together to save it, explains Andrew Murrell.
Written by: Andrew Murrell
Alex Webb’s street scenes capture life at its most poetic
Where the light leads... — Magnum photographer Alex Webb has absorbed the world, catching cinematic moments that make time stand still. Now he’s ready to focus that intuition on the everyday world he calls home.
Written by: Alex Webb
America could learn a lot from the skaters of Atlanta
Lessons from the Fourth Ward Skate Park — As Trump comes to power on a divisive wave of prejudice, the skate community of Atlanta is holding tight and keeping their own utopia alive. In this chapter of Disunited States, a series of dispatches from Georgia, Huck escapes to the Fourth Ward Skate Park and finds a community that refuses to build boundaries.
Written by: Michael Segalov
Artists, activists and cultural rebels react to Trumpageddon
The end is nigh? — The blonde grope-monster is one step closer to getting his hands on the big red nuke button. Here’s how our family of artists, countercultural figures and activists reacted.
Written by: HUCK HQ
Under Trump make no mistake: We're all refugees now
From Where I Stand — What happens when the arc of history no longer bends towards justice? As Donald Trump upends the world in the greatest political upset for generations, Japanese-American writer Tetsuhiko Endo reflects on what the future holds for anyone fighting on the fringes.
Written by: Tetsuhiko Endo