Zoe Paskett

2 months ago | huckmag.com | Fred Dodgson |Robert Kazandjian |Catherine Jones |Zoe Paskett

“I think my work is an inquiry into understanding a deeper self,” says London-based multi-disciplinary visual artist, and skateboarder, Arran Gregory during our WhatsApp call, him nearly eight thousand miles away in Bali. “This idea of exploring where we come from, how we suddenly got here, and connecting the dots between the two.” Gregory’s statement is one that has remained relevant throughout his creative practice.

2 months ago | huckmag.com | Fred Dodgson |Robert Kazandjian |Catherine Jones |Zoe Paskett

“Drunkenness is a strange thing,” says Brad Foskett, preparing to entertain a gaggle of regulars at The Black Cat in Bedminster, south Bristol. “It can be happy, or it can be violent.” With a relentless schedule of pub singing that saw him have just a single weekend free from performance last year, the assumption is that Foskett has seen plenty of both. As he sings, the glumness of a late February afternoon begins to lift with every passing song.

2 months ago | huckmag.com | Robert Kazandjian |Catherine Jones |Zoe Paskett |Cyna Mirzai

For hundreds of years, queer history has been hidden in plain sight, its artists casting their gazes in a myriad of ways, encoded in our constructs of beauty, desire, status, and wealth. Photography’s arrival in 1839 signalled a remarkable shift, placing the power of image-making in the hands of the people rather than the establishment. For those driven to create, visibility quickly became an act of resistance against misrepresentation, marginalisation, and erasure.

2 months ago | huckmag.com | Catherine Jones |Zoe Paskett |Cyna Mirzai

Hailing from south London, Krept & Konan first broke through in 2013 with their mixtape Young Kingz. They’ve since flourished into UK rap’s most successful, platinum-selling double act, offsetting combustible street anthems (‘Bloodclart’) and lusty club heaters (‘Freak Of The Week’) with raw, deeply personal writing on songs like ‘My Story’, ‘Last Letter To Cadet’ and ‘Broski’.

2 months 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.