180 Studios hosts Selah, the largest exhibition of the inimitable photographer and filmmaker to date
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From Sheffield to Peckham via Japan, the artist is tireless in his search for life in all its complexity. His next journey is to the heart of ‘future nostalgia’. We catch up with him at his London studio
Featuring work by artists including Cindy Sherman, David Bailey, Robert Frank and Irving Penn, The Photographers’ Gallery’s exhibition digs deep into the treasures of Antoine de Beaupré’s 15,000-strong record collection
This is Image Noise, a new column by Crack Magazine on the British Journal of Photography, spotlighting the most exciting image makers working in and around the music industry
When a Mexican curator invited Pieter Hugo over to make new work, “His only brief to me,” says the photographer, “was that it be about sex and mortality”. So began a two-year inquiry into the country’s complex relationship with life, death and the afterlife
Akasha Rabut’s decade-long document of New Orleans delivers a powerful message about resilience and community during the current pandemic
“I am mostly self-taught, learning from experiences. I definitely didn’t follow a conventional art student route”
Before REM, the band he fronted for more than three decades, there was photography.
When the first issue of Huck went to press in 2006, it was quite different to what it is today. Started by a team of friends passionate about the skate and surf scenes, and formed soon after the closure of Adrenalin magazine, where many of them had worked, it championed the personal stories of the sports’ icons and surrounding culture, rather than the action. Though still passionate about radical culture, Huck is now decidedly less niche.
“Over the years, the voice we’ve always had as an alternative to the mainstream became more relevant to more people,” says Andrea Kurland, who has been part of the team from the start, and became editor-in-chief in 2010. “As we’ve grown, the generation that grew up with us has become more socially and politically engaged. This is now very embedded in the magazine, so we’ve been bolder and braver with this particular world stance.”
“Music is a language for all humans; it gets under your skin and brings out and expresses strong emotions,” says Emily Stein, whose latest commission took her to a primary school in North London, where she photographed young children for Stella McCartney’s Kid’s fashion range