Skate
How skateboarding is helping to revitalise a village in rural India
Skating, educating and building community — Author, futurist and community activist Ulrike Reinhard founded Janwaar Castle to reinvigorate a rural village through skateboarding.
Written by: Alex King
Teenage Utopia: Skating Through the Lockdown
Skateboarding and unity in Brussels — The Paris attacks pushed Brussels into the centre of Europe's debate about immigration, intolerance and radicalisation. Ursulines skatepark offers a refreshing counterpoint, here kids from all backgrounds skate together in peace.
Written by: Alex King
Video: Skateistan's new year's resolution is to bring skateboards to kids everywhere
Become a 'Citizen of Skateistan' — Groundbreaking NGO Skateistan has shown how skateboarding can be a force for social change in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa. Now they need your help to keep moving forward.
Written by: Alex King
Mimi Knoop is paving the way to gold for women’s skateboarding
Our day will come — The potential inclusion of skateboarding in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics divides opinion. But the potential benefits for women’s skateboarding could be huge, explains Mimi Knoop.
Written by: Hannah Bailey
Meet the Brussels skaters overcoming cultural barriers to create their own utopia
Skateboarding and integration — The media has painted Brussels as a city of immigrant ghettos, intolerance and radicalisation. But at Les Ursulines skate park, kids from all backgrounds skate together in peace.
Written by: Alex King
Meet the pioneers of Palestine’s skateboarding scene
Skateboarding knows no religion — Can non-profit project Skatepal help unite the youth in a divided land?
Written by: King Adz
A young and not-so-young Sydney photographer celebrate skateboarding in the harbour city
AJP & Mike O'Meally — Nobody knows the Sydney skate scene like Mike O’Meally and Andrew James Peters: two of the city’s finest photographic exports. HUCK sits down to chat magic moments and throwing cameras in bins.
Written by: Oliver Pelling
Photographer Luke Overin reveals the dystopian world of modern Britain
Ultimate Metal Breakdown — South London-based photographer Luke Overin explores a weird world of suburban retail parks and youthful escapism in his new show at Huck’s 71a Gallery.
Written by: Alex King
Top skate photographer Atiba Jefferson reveals his earliest, and favourite, images
Oakley In Residence Sydney — To celebrate his retrospective exhibition in Sydney, we catch up with Atiba Jefferson about the skateboarding photographs that have made him who he is.
Written by: Oliver Pelling
Common Strangers brings together the best emerging skate photographers
Always pushing — Photographer and curator Lola Paprocka on how skate and DIY culture unites her showcase of emerging photographers.
Written by: Alex King