Huck

Huck is inspired by DIY culture, featuring people who make you think, who challenge the system, who strike out on their own. Packed with intelligent journalism and stunning photography, it covers the people and the places that are shaping culture all over the world.

Huck

In Constant Motion • We live in an age of movement, with conflict and climate change displacing millions of people around the globe. As communities are forced to flee the places they call home, images of refugees have become sadly too familiar. But is any of it truly cutting through?

Who Is Michael Jang? • Michael Jang views the world through a mischievous lens. Be it irreverent family photos, covert celebrity shots or candid portraits of US weather broadcasters, his work amplifies the humour in the everyday. Now, after going unseen for decades, it’s finally gaining the plaudits it deserves – and the 68-year-old is loving every second.

I’ve Always Been a Cowboy in My Heart • After falling victim to a violent assault, BMX rider Sandy Carson left his native Scotland for the US. It was there, travelling the breadth of the country, that he found a home in photography – capturing American life with an outsider’s eye.

Street Studios • Alexia Webster travels the world, setting up public studios where anyone can pose for a portrait. For the South African photographer, it’s about redressing the power balance between artist and subject – all while sharing the simple joy that comes with having your photo taken.

Parade • Mark Neville believes that photography can be more than just pictures on a page. Over the course of his career, he’s shone a light on unspoken issues – making work that actively serves the communities he captures.

Lindokuhle Sobekwa on Ernest Cole • A rising star of South African photography lifts the lid on the storyteller who inspired him most.

Bower Bird Blues • Motherhood, of all the stories we possess, is perhaps the most well-known: a narrative that in someway shapes us all. But for photographer Ying Ang, no corner of culture – no books, films, photos or art – captured the implosion that transformed her world. It demanded a new way of seeing.

Ozark Life Project • Terra Fondriest documents life in the Ozarks with an unmatched intimacy – a challenge in a region awash with stereotypes. But the mother, firefighter and horse ranch worker is no outsider. She’s simply capturing what she knows.

The Coast • Sohrab Hura blends fact and fiction to explore contemporary Indian society, never giving away whether an image is real, staged, or a little bit of both. For him, this kind of provocation is the only way to depict the anxiety he currently feels in his home country: a precarious state, sizzling with tension.

Freedom or Death • Gideon Mendel made his name as one of South Africa’s leading ‘struggle photographers’, unflinchingly documenting the most brutal years of apartheid. Now, over 25 years later, a chance encounter with some old damaged prints has led him to revisit the forgotten parts of his archive – helping him unpack some of the trauma he witnessed in those formative years.

New Landscapes • Caribbean American photographer Miranda Barnes went from sharing images on her Tumblr page to feature assignments for The New York Times in the space of a few short years. Whether she’s documenting the black American experience or using her work as a vessel for social justice, she’s driven by a desire to shake things up in contemporary photography.

The Grass • American photographer Cengiz Yar has seen a few things in his time – from the rebels’ battle to oust Assad in Syria, to the human fallout of conflict in Iraq. But it was away from the frontlines that he truly came to value a universal right: having a patch to call one’s own.

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