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Landmark new exhibition is celebrating 50 years of female punk

God Save the Queens — The Museum of Youth Culture is bringing together rare photography, archive material and a one-night-only supergroup featuring members of X-Ray Spex, The Slits and The Raincoats.

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  • Ella Glossop

Halcyon, end of summer days in ’80s Massachusetts

Bell Pond — Stephen DiRado’s new photobook is a nostalgic look at blissed out moments of young love, family and coming of age at a swimming pond in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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  • Miss Rosen

Nick Haymes’s intimate portrait of his family’s life

Chronograph — Over 25 years, the photographer documented his son’s lives as they grew into adults. The resulting photobook is an exploration of the passage of time, as well as the optimism of youth.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

Youthful joy & end-of-era poignancy at a London school prom

Leavers — For several years, Lewis Khan documented young people as they celebrated the last of their school days and the completion of their exams. The series is now collated in a new self-published photobook and short film.

  • Culture
  • Zoe Whitfield
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A melancholic portrait of youth, rebellion and womanhood in Iran

And They Laughed At Me — Newsha Tavakolian has worked as a photographer all her adult life, as Iran underwent change, upheaval and conflict. Her new photobook explores the formative years of her eye and art amid generational strife, hope and disappointment.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

On Marrakech’s outskirts, a skatepark reimagines possibility for local youth

Tameslouht — Built on the grounds of the Fiers et Forts orphanage, a new spot is providing space for connection and purpose, while incubating top-class talent. Ellie Howard reports from its banks.

  • Sport
  • Ellie Howard

Free-spirited, otherworldly portraits of Mexico City’s queer youth

Birds — Pieter Henket’s new collaborative photobook creates a stage for CDMX’s LGBTQ+ community to express themselves without limitations, styling themselves with wild outfits that subvert gender and tradition.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk

The cathartic roar of Vietnam’s hardcore punk scene

Going hardcore in Saigon — In a country that has gradually opened up in recent decades, a burgeoning youth movement is creating an outlet for youth frustration and anxiety. Frank L’Opez reports from the country’s biggest city’s underground.

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The quiet, introspective delight of Finland’s car cruising scene

Pilluralli — In the country’s small towns and rural areas, young people meet up to drive and hang out with their friends. Jussi Puikkonen spent five years photographing its idiosyncratic pace.

  • Culture
  • Josh Jones

The lacerating catharsis of body suspension in Hong Kong

Self-Ferrying — In one of the world’s most densely packed cities, an underground group of young people are piercing their skin and hanging their bodies with hooks in a shocking exploration of pain and pleasure. Sophie Liu goes to a session to understand why they partake in the extreme underground practice.

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  • Sophie Liu
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Inside the London rollerskating scene’s fight for space

Chop & shuffle — A new, young generation is skating with a style unique to the UK’s capital, but they’re up against security guards, dog units, and padlocks. Sunny Sunday reports on the community’s search for a home.

  • Sport
  • Sunny Sunday
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Inside the shadowy, booming underground world of Urbex

Touching bricks — Spurred by social media success and a desire to live in the physical world, a new generation of teenagers and young people are sneaking into abandoned buildings and documenting their discoveries. Letty Cole goes fence-jumping with two Urbexers to find out more, and gets chased by security in the process.

  • Sport
  • Letty Cole

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