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Vic Mensa is busy adjusting his camera, trying to get it right. He changes it from mobile to laptop view, the neon blue lights from across the room transforming his hue, before he disappears entirely. After a few seconds, he returns again. “Well, tha

Nowadays, the Beirut explosion is all that people want to talk about. Bilal Hersh finds this frustrating. It’s almost as if his life has suddenly become more interesting to others – “just because there was a bomb”. The 31-year-old skateboarder was ri

It’s spring in Oman – the time of the year when the relatively pleasant temperatures start to give way to relentless desert heat. On this particularly sweltering day, we’re in Bawshar – a wilayat (province) in Muscat, in the country’s northeast – and

This isn’t the kind of crowd that goes to the odd roller disco as a novelty outing. There are some tentative beginners learning the ropes, but for the most part the skaters here are dedicated to pushing what’s possible on eight wheels, whether it’s g

one future #ckone is a new photography series from Calvin Klein, spotlighting first-time voters in the U.S. amid the 2020 election. Shot during August and September, it sees some of the country's most exciting young visual storytellers coming togethe

What first drew you to comics? When I was very young, like seven, I was in a library and found Robert Crumb’s Complete Crumb anthology. When I saw that, I just fell in love with comics. I had never seen anything like that before… all this adult mater

As the free-spoken pioneer behind Public Enemy, Chuck D has carried the torch for the best part of four decades. He has seen leaders come and go, revolutions rise and fall. To mark a political moment unlike any other, the hip hop legend shares what h

I was already quite rebellious as a teenager. I hitchhiked a lot in the GDR [East Germany], following rock bands. But I found photography through my father. He was a freelance photographer who shot passport pictures, wedding photos. He forced me to d

‘Action’ has always been at the heart of Huck. In the early days, the mid-noughties, that relationship was perhaps more literal. The magazine was born out of surf and skate culture: our first eight cover stars, for instance, all came directly from th

It’s early evening in southern California. Ty Duckett, a stocky Philadelphia native, lies on his surfboard in the ocean. Another man, wearing a bucket hat, stands nearby: he’s chest-deep in the water and gesturing with his hands. Ty, who’s 35 years o

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Austin is a predominantly Black neighbourhood on the west side of Chicago, and the subject of a two-year project by photographer Sasha Phyars-Burgess. In regards to the title, she decided to include GPS coordinates so that people could look it up on

Recently, Kathy Karlo was trying to describe the Red River Gorge to a friend who’d never visited before. Despite her best intentions, the climber and podcast host could only offer one valid comparison when it came to painting an accurate picture of t

During the summer, London’s basketball courts were some of the first free public spaces to reopen post-lockdown. Scattered across the capital, each one is a unique, self-contained island – home to an impressive cast of regulars, for whom community is