Desert on Vice

Ray-Ban and VICE Threw a Party at a Mansion in the Desert

Ray-Ban and VICE teamed up to throw a party in a mansion out in Palm Desert this past weekend to celebrate both the festivities in the desert that weekend and the launch of The Envision Series. Full story

Ground Zero

Mali - France Vs. Jihad

Back in February, the only way to reach the city of Gao in northern Mali was to hitch a ride with the French convoys that rolled through the desert every few days. Along the way, a VICE production crew made friends with some French soldiers and chatted with them about what they t… Full story

Dry Heat

Photos by Amanda Charchian and styling by Annette Lamothe-Ramos. Full story

Bedu

"Bedu" completes Jim Mangan's trilogy on the subject of rebirth, which includes "Winter's Children," used in the VICE June 2010 issue, and "Color'd," used as the cover and feature in the VICE 2011 Photo Issue. Full story

Desert Dreams

The ambitious growth of the United Arab Emirates has attracted expatriates from all across the globe. It is this influx of new cultures that is causing the identity of the Emirates to evolve. "Desert Dreams" focuses on the coexistence of these different cultures in the UAE. Full story

Princess Dies Is the Last Woman on Earth

While eating breakfast at a biker bar off a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, I met a curious chick named Ashby Lee Collinson. Full story

Americana

Slab City

Welcome to Slab City, a desolate stretch of desert in Southern California known to its inhabitants as The Last Free Place in America.

Americana

Frontsight

Tactical firearms training in the middle of the Nevada desert.

The Coober Pedy Issue

Welcome to CP

For this issue of VICE we spent a week living in the amazing contradiction of an outback town that is Coober Pedy. Full story