Huck

STRANGERS ON A SUMMER SWING, DETROIT 2017. Harlem-based photographer Emmanuel Rosario conjures adventure everywhere he goes. Last summer, while living in Detroit, he stumbled upon a rope-swing while on a bike ride with some friends. A pair of locals

On a cool night late in the summer of 1976, David Godlis stood on the Bowery, a desolate NYC strip synonymous with flophouses and winos who’d lived under the shadow of the Third Avenue El train for more than a century. Although the train had been dis

Last September - a month before his 17th birthday - Zion Kelly was walking through the park near his home in Washington DC when a strange man asked him for his phone. Unsettled, Zion bolted and later texted his twin, Zaire, to tell him about the enco

Last year, Jamie Margolin became transfixed by news alerts flashing on her phone: mudslides in Colombia, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Maria and, closer to home, “the thick smog that covered Seattle thanks to stronger-than-usual wildfires in Canada.” I

“I don’t think a lot of people realised that we’re students,” says Liv Francis-Cornibert. “They were messaging us like, ‘Can we work for you?’ And we were like, ‘We’re literally 18…’” “I still live with my mum!” quips Shiden Tekle, sat beside her in

Fifteen-year-old Syrian Muhammad Najem posted his first Tweet on 7 December, promising to convey all the events being committed by the Assad regime in Eastern Ghouta – a part of Syria which has been under siege since 2013. Muhammad’s motivation was s

Last spring, Karolína Farská was getting fed up with Slovakia’s politics. Every time she looked at the news, a corruption scandal seemed to have hit the headlines. “And we’re a really small country,” she says. “I couldn’t see how it was possible for

For new recruits, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is not only an army but a rite of passage: one that smooths your transition into adult society. Choosing not to serve, therefore, marks you out as an other. It can lead to being labelled a threat and

At 14, Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal inadvertently became the face of Thailand’s student activism movement – a daunting role, given the country’s history of draconian lèse-majesté laws, military coups and state violence. Considered a “disgrace” for his “e

By the age of eight, Bing Liu had lived in Beijing, Alabama and South Central LA before settling in the rust belt city of Rockford, Illinois. Once there, he’d spend his days alone in a small apartment complex, guzzling cans of Mountain Dew and jumpin

Smoking cigarettes at a high altitude, without water or food, is a poor decision. This was a lesson Shehrbano Saiyid learned the hard way 6,000 metres up in Pakistani’s Karakoram mountain range. While descending the northern peak Manglik Sar, she beg

ETU TUPALA yells a stream of expletives as his home-built rally car slams violently into a snowbank. He’s been leading a race across a frozen lake, gunning his ramshackle engine to the limit only to fishtail into a corner. Now, after wrestling madly

Lindsey Jordan is having a beach day. It doesn’t matter if there are no actual beaches between San Antonio, Texas and Tucson, Arizona – tour dates number 33 and 34, respectively, of 90 scheduled shows in 2018. It’s a figurative thing: part of a wider

Peyton Fulford started out photographing the people she wished she could be. She shot Annie and Trevor, two genderqueer friends, their heads intertwined and their hair coloured in shocks of chemical dye. There was Graham, sitting soft and ethereal in

The smell of fresh paint hangs in the air as Tassy Swallow pushes open a wooden door to the Surf House, an old military building she crowdfunded back to life after 12 years of dereliction. Tassy can still remember the moment she found the place up on

British fencer Teagan Williams-Stewart is sitting in her kitchen, trying to express how much she loves winning. The explanation is mainly being conducted through a series of bashful grins. “Well… I am really competitive,” she eventually concludes, be

“When I was about 14, I lived above a fish and chips shop… and I stank of them. Kids used to tease and bully me, ‘Fish and chips! Fish and chips!’ At the time, my mother would only give me two frocks a week to wear; she was quite weird. She wouldn’t

IT’S 5:30 IN the morning, unseasonably cold and still dark in New York. Haidara Nasser, Osama Alsahybi, Ahmed Alzandhani and Abdullah Shaiba are on their way to the Bronx in Haidara’s minivan, which is at least a decade old but impeccably clean with

You don’t choose your name as a hobo. You earn it. Steven Boutwell gained his while working with another travelling kid on farms in Washington State. Something about his adventurous spirit and southern drawl inspired the boy to start calling him Huck

As a 13-year-old, Nabihah Iqbal would make routine weekend pilgrimages from her home in London’s Regents Park to Camden. There, she’d spend the afternoon shopping for outlandish outfits (she was in the midst of a grunge phase, so only baggy trousers

I never really questioned being weaker than the guys,” says Ashima Shiraishi, the five-foot-one, 16-year-old New Yorker who has often been called ‘the world’s most talented rock climber’. “I always thought I had the same strength, and knew I was capa

Louis Theroux has encountered murderers, paedophiles, Nazis, gangsters, drug dealers and sex traffickers. He’s also found himself face-down in a wrestling ring, searching for UFOs, starring in porn and trying gangsta rap. His 20-year career as a docu

Beach House are sitting at the heart of an empty Council Chamber in East London – an Edwardian courtroom used for lectures and wedding ceremonies – reflecting on their 12-year career of making sensual dream-pop together. By their own admission, there