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1 week ago | huckmag.com | Isaac Muk

Coming of age in New York’s East Village during its bohemian heyday, Angela Jaeger was in the mix just as punk hit the streets, turning Bowery and St. Marks into the mecca of the city’s underground scene. ​“I grew up on 11th Street and Second Avenue; it was very vibrant, electric, noisy, crazy kooks and artists walking around, and a lot of social activism,” she says. As the youngest sibling of three, Jaeger was hip to the ​’60s but ready to do her own thing, so she headed over to CBGB in 1976.

1 week ago | huckmag.com | Isaac Muk

On May 25, 2020, along with millions of others, Misan Harriman watched the video of George Floyd being murdered by police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The 10-minute-long clip, captured by a 17-year-old bystander, led to an outpouring of emotion across the world, with millions take to the streets to protest against racism and police brutality, including Harriman himself, who took his Leica to demonstrations in London and began taking pictures of attendees at marches.

1 week ago | huckmag.com | Isaac Muk

One evening in 2006, Ewen Spencer travelled up from his hometown of Brighton to Watford, northwest of London. He had been commissioned by Channel 4 to take promotional pictures for an upcoming teen drama, Skins, but didn’t have much of an idea of what to expect. “I didn’t know anything about Skins, no one did – I knew it was a production in Bristol,” Spencer recalls. ​“I got sent a DVD with a pilot on it and watched about 10 minutes of it.

1 week ago | huckmag.com | Isaac Muk

Campaigners have hacked bus network advertising boards across London, Manchester and Leeds to protest the ongoing imprisonment of British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah in Egypt. The protest ran yesterday, June 15, on Father’s Day, calling on the British foreign secretary David Lammy to take more urgent action in securing Abd El-Fattah’s release, while noting that Abd El-Fattah’s son Khaled Saif continues to grow up without the presence of his father.

1 week ago | huckmag.com | Sam Haddad

When Matty Hannon was 31, he felt an existential ache that led him to ditch his job making commercials in Melbourne and embark on the ultimate surf road trip – a 50,000km odyssey from the Alaskan wilderness down to the tip of Tierra del Fuego. The Road to Patagonia is a verité documentary chronicling that journey – which starts on a motorbike and ends by horseback – and indeed the very wisdom of the Anthropocene, with some incredible surf travel footage thrown in along the way.