Articles by Christian Storm
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Michael Jang's Family Photos Are Better Than Yours
Michael Jang's new solo show, 'The Jangs,' just opened at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Fransisco. This time, we see intimate and hilarious shots of Michael's own extended family, taken in California in the 1970s while he was a student at Cal Arts. These pictures are far from your average family snapshots. Full story
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Pixel Noise
Pixel Noise Vol. 2: Friday Hangover
Like most adults over the age of 21 but under whatever arbitrary age at which you’re supposed to start acting boring, I do some irresponsible things sometimes. I’m not leaving babies unattended in hot cars or anything, but sometimes I go to a bar past my bedtime on a school night… Full story
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VICE Loves Magnum
Ian Berry Takes Jaw-Dropping Photos of Massacres and Floods
In 1962, Ian Berry was invited to join Magnum by Henri Cartier-Bresson—which, in photographic terms, is as close to canonization as you can get. His invitation followed his work in South Africa, where he was the only photographer to witness the massacre at Sharpeville, a brutal e… Full story
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Pixel Noise
Pixel Noise Vol. 1: The Loud and the Pretty
When VICE’s photo editor, Christian, isn’t busy tracking down the best photographs to blow your minds in both the mag and on VICE.com, he’s wasting time and listening to every song he can get his hands on. Every week, he will bring you a mix of the stuff he’s been jamming to, as… Full story
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Best of Jason Nocito's Loads Daily
A Beginner's Guide to Jason Nocito
Jason Nocito is an insanely talented and prolific photographer who, if you know anything about photography, you should already know about. He takes about a million cool photographs a day, and he needed some place to put them all, so he started his photoblog, LOADS Daily. These ar… Full story
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Unearthing America's Treasure Trove of Obscure Private Press Vinyl
Years ago, before computers and the internet, recording and disseminating your music was much less democratic. Yet, many unknown and obscure musicians did just that, going DIY and privately pressing their work themselves. We looked at a new book 'Enjoy The Experience,' which exam… Full story
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I Chatted with the Dirty Girls, 17 Years Later
The sisters, the stars of Michael Lucid's recently viral documentary, were the most bad ass, riot grrrl high schoolers ever to be captured on VHS. I caught up with them to see what they are up to today. Guess what? They're still awesome. Full story
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We Love Synchrodogs and Their Naked People
Deep in the forests of Ukraine live two spritely photographers named Tania and Roman who work together in perfect harmony to create some of the most surreal, confounding, intriguing, and beautiful photographs of naked people we have ever seen. Full story
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Spring Break on the Lower East Side in an Old School? Surf's up!
The Spring/Break Art Show, a new group show taking place in the Old School (spring break and school don't usually jive, but this is an exception) on the Lower East Side just opened and visiting just might make you feel a little better about your lack of a real spring break. Full story
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Inside the Abandoned Radioactive Towns of Japan
Photographer Toshiya Watanabe's family lived in Namie, a town in the fallout zone of the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant meltdown, which is now abandoned two years later. Toshiya has gone back to document the changes, or lack thereof, that he sees in his forgotten hometown. Full story
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The Coming Age of Corporate Cannabis
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