VICE PHOTO
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Fear and Loathing at the Strip Mall Gun Range
Type A is an art duo who recently collaborated on a series of mass produced target practice posters for gun ranges. The images play on our fears, while blurring the lines between what is art and what's for sale. Full story
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Odessa Is a Paradise
According to photographer Tchane Okuyan, "Odessa resembles a huge beach party, or a big orgy. The nightclubs are near the sea, the alcohol is very cheap, the girls are beautiful, and they'll fuck you for a few glasses of champagne…" That sounds like nirvana to us. Full story
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Nathaniel Russell's Dog Isn't Really Missing
Nathaniel Russell creates funny and sad flyers you might make for the yard sale you had in 1994. Only his advertisements are a little more clever and poignant than those. Full story
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Beef and Oil
A Bird’s-Eye View of Two of Modern Life’s Most Precious Commodities
Yes, that thing that looks like Earth’s gaping, bleeding asshole is a half-mile-by-half-mile runoff pool of cow shit and piss. It’s from Mishka’s new series, which consists of mega-high-resolution composite satellite images of cattle farms and oil fields (mostly in the American S… Full story
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Photographer Barrett Emke's Affirmative Psychic Energy
Barrette Emke lives in Kansas and takes pictures, like you and me, only better. He showed us some new unreleased photographs that do a good job proving that photographs can present the ineffable. Full story
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Make Friends with Albert Elm's Photos
To this day I still feel restless often and somehow photography is the only thing that makes my restlessness make sense. It is also an excuse to explore places I wouldn't normally visit and meet people I wouldn't normally have met. Sometimes I even make friends. Full story
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Offerings to the Visual World
Michigan photographer Don Hudson has been taking pictures for decades, but only recently decided to digitize his body of work and share it on the web. A new book of his photos called 'From the Archives' was just released and it's pretty awesome. Full story
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Asger Carlsen's New Book Is a Girl
We’ve been anticipating the release of Asger Carlsen’s new book, a collection of freaky body blobs and sculptures molded out of human flesh called Hester, ever since we ran a preview from it in our 2011 Photo Issue. More than a year later, it’s finally out. Full story
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Bangkok Is a Paradise
Theo sent us some pictures from his recent trip to Bangkok, and I think I can safely say these are the grimiest of the lot. Or the most paradisiacal, if you're deranged. To each his own, I guess. Full story
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Zacharias Dimitriadis Makes Greece Look Fun Again
His photos make you forget about all the hatred and fighting, which is nice. Full story
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Richard Kern's Films Are Still Shocking as Hell
You may know him from all of his pictures of cute, topless girls, but from 1984 to 1993, Richard Kern made a ton of violent, aggressive, and visceral films, featuring murder, rape, and mayhem. They were all recently remastered and released on Blu-Ray, and they're still really cra… Full story
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Siberia's Most Depressing Town Is Actually Quite Nice
Semipalatinsk, or “Semey,” as it was recently renamed, is a town in Kazakh Siberia so desolate that being sentenced to exile there was thought to be one of the cruelest penalties the Soviet Union could dole out. It was considered such a shitty place, in fact, that in 1949 the tow… Full story
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Urbanization Is Swallowing the Coastline of the Mediterranean
Nick Hannes has been traveling across the Mediterranean coastline photographing the locals, the immigrants, the tourists, and the escalating urbanization for a project he's called 'Mediterranee.' Full story
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I Had Lunch with Larry Clark
His new movie, 'Marfa Girl,' was just released online to avoid corporate bullshit and ratings bureaucracy. It's just another in a long line of badass moves which prove how much the almost-70-year-old is still in touch with what's going on. Full story
The Mare
A New Story by Mary Gaitskill
Toppling a Delicate World
Being Gay and South Asian In America
There's No Sex in Prison Showers
We Usually Wore Our Underwear
Try Not to Destroy Your Life
The First Time I Took Molly
A Teacher and Her Student
Marilynne Robinson on Staying Out of Trouble
"Whitey" Isn't Very Popular in Boston
Interviews with Some of His Old Friends