Documentary

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The genius documentary filmmakers to watch out for in 2016

Winners of the MacArthur Foundation Documentary Film Grant — The Chicago-based foundation has funded 19 documentary films, with a particular focus on creative approaches to social and environmental issues. Huck looks at the sharp and energetic films that made this year's cut.

Written by: Josh Gabert-Doyon

Photography

Photographer Alec Soth on the importance of being a beginner

Playing Around, Trying Stuff Out — Huck editor Andrea Kurland catches up with great American documentarian Alec Soth about his impressive, constantly changing career, during his first UK retrospective at the Science Museum, London.

Written by: Andrea Kurland

Photography

Ukraine in turmoil, seen through the eyes of a young local photographer

Anastasia Vlasova: My Ukraine — Ukrainian photographer Anastasia Vlasova cut her teeth on the frontlines, covering her first protest when she was just seventeen. At twenty-two, she’s witnessed a revolution and the grief of war. But it’s the people she met - and loved - along the way that taught her the lesson of a lifetime.

Written by: Anastasia Vlasova

Photography

How a photographer captured a story of love and domestic abuse in Ohio

The ties that bind — A chance encounter with a couple at a fayre in Ohio became a story that never ends for documentary photographer Sara Naomi Lewkowicz.

Written by: Interview: Andrea Kurland

Photography

Albinism and identity in Puerto Rico

Adriana Monsalve: Clear as Black — When Adriana Monsalve set out to capture the nuances of albinism, she began to understand her own sense of identity.

Written by: Interview: Alex King

Film

Video: The street artists who bombed primetime with ‘Homeland is racist’ graffiti

Homeland Is Not A Series — Caram Kapp explains why the Arabian Street Artists had to challenge Homeland’s inaccurate and damaging portrayal of the Middle East, War on Terror and the refugee crisis.

Written by: Alex King

Culture

New film Sherpa documents the fearless Everest guides’ battle for respect

Review: Sherpa by Jennifer Peedom — The death of 16 Sherpas on Everest in 2014 went almost unnoticed by foreign climbers. But the tragedy helped the long-mistreated Nepalese guides to find their voice.

Written by: Adam White

Photography

In Pictures: A dying way of life in the remote wilderness of Scotland's Outer Hebrides

Olivia Arthur & Phillip Ebeling: The Sound of Harris — London-based photography partners Olivia Arthur and Philip Ebeling travelled to some of the wildest parts of the UK to capture an existence far removed from the city.

Written by: Shelley Jones

Film

Chemsex is a modern fable of the collision between sex, drugs and technology

Interview with co-director Max Gogarty — Documentary Chemsex investigates hard drug use on the UK’s gay scene and the spread of addiction and HIV which is creating a new health emergency.

Written by: Alex King

Film

Video: A Syrian refugee family during five years of civil war

A Syrian Love Story — Documentarian Sean McAllister describes his long journey with a Syrian family during the unfathomable fall of an entire country.

Written by: Shelley Jones

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