Emma-Jean Thackray

1 month ago | huckmag.com | Zoe Paskett |Cyna Mirzai |Emma-Jean Thackray |Isaac Muk

Dallas native Sharon Smith landed in New York during the winter of 1978, with dreams of becoming a photographer. “I was a bit lost and terribly naive, with no clue how to make a living,” says Smith. “It took me a while to figure that out.” During summer 1980, Smith happened upon a ‘help wanted’ advertisement in The Village Voice. The legendary nightclub, Copacabana, needed photographers to work high school proms.

1 month ago | huckmag.com | Zoe Paskett |Cyna Mirzai |Emma-Jean Thackray |Isaac Muk

On a sun-drenched morning in Puerto Rico, Bad Bunny — born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio — strolls into Zeta 93, the hometown radio station that once made his college-student heart race with nerves. Back then, he was a kid pursuing a communications degree. “I had the dream of getting into radio and having my own program,” he explains. Today?

1 month ago | huckmag.com | Cyna Mirzai |Emma-Jean Thackray |Isaac Muk |Jake Hall

Under a disco ball on a rainy Monday evening in Walthamstow, an empty, wooden dance floor is waiting. Around its edges, clumps of friends chatter and chug down water, wiping sweat from their foreheads and recovering from their last dance. “I so nearly had that one!” one of them says. “Oh god, I didn’t,” says someone else walking past. Then, ‘I’m a Slave 4 U’ by Britney Spears comes on the speakers, and six or seven people run into the middle of the room and spread out.

2 months ago | huckmag.com | Cyna Mirzai |Emma-Jean Thackray |Isaac Muk |Jake Hall

With the CIA plotting to assassinate Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley, the United States worked to destabilise the success of the widely popular democratic socialist leader who called out all players in the Cold War on behalf of the Global South. The newly liberated Caribbean nation was rocked by violence and the government destabilised, while American institutions reaped the benefits of a displaced labor force.