KARLEY SCIORTINO
Karley is the author of Slutever (slutever.org), a blog where she writes about stuff like fornication, her various sex slaves, and magic masturbation rituals in explicit, perverted, and exceptional detail. Before moving to New York last summer, she spent six years living in various gross squat communes around London, the documentation of which can also be found on her blog. Karley has written for Dazed & Confused and Interview and recently published a book on Vice photographer Ben Rayner’s imprint, Rayner Books. It includes some of the most tantalizing stories from Slutever and some pictures she took of boys jerking off and making out with one another. For this issue, Karley received lessons on how to be a literal ball-busting dominatrix from one of the most respected domme mistresses in New York City.
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TREVOR SNAPP
Trevor Snapp is an independent photographer based in East Africa who seems to be able to navigate his way through any and every dangerous situation on the planet. He first came to our attention by pitching us a piece about a remote group of warriors in Southern Sudan who subsist mostly on cow’s blood, which they drink through very long pointed straws. Coordinating with these types of folks is a pain so it didn’t work out, but just before this issue went to press he sent us an amazing feature about spending time on the front lines with Libyan rebels in Benghazi. Trevor’s photos have appeared in magazines like Stern, Geo, and Newsweek. He is currently working on long-term projects about Southern Sudan’s emergence as a new nation and about a massive rain-forest reserve in Guatemala that has been seized by cowboys.
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MUIR VIDLER
After a photography-free childhood in Edinburgh, Scotland, Muir landed a job as a cruise-ship photographer on a little Greek rust-bucket full of a rotating cast of cheap, belligerent British passengers. Though it’s not the route he would recommend to aspiring shutterbugs, everything has been a step up from there. In addition to shooting for a bunch of flashy commercial clients that’d be tacky to list here, Muir shot the fashion spread we staged in the middle of the London student riots, which appeared in our January issue. Twice he’s traveled to Libya to visit Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s house. Both times he accompanied beauty-pageant contestants and studiously documented the ensuing weirdness, which he elaborates on in this very issue. He also shot Gaddafi’s ridiculous and shittily constructed golden-fist monument, which graces this month’s cover.
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BOBBY DOHERTY
Bobby is one of our ace interns. He is also a precocious photo-taking peacock who has recently been spreading his colorful plumage. In May he will graduate from the School of Visual Arts, where he’s been working in the A/V department (which, according to his description, sounds like the most boring job ever) for the past three years. One morning we told him, “You’re photographing God today,” and sent him to a hillside in Rochester where Bob Odenkirk asked Him questions about those Westboro Baptist protest signs. As if taking a picture of the Creator weren’t enough, the next day Bobby causally strolled into a house full of kitties with mesmerizingly adorable curled ears and shot them for this month’s Cute Show Page! What a showboat.
See GOD COMMENTS ON THE WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH PROTEST SIGNS and THE CUTE SHOW PAGE!
ANNABEL MEHRAN
Annabel Mehran is a spunky photographer based in New York City who knows how to light an image like a fucking champ. Besides Vice, she has shot lots of pretty pictures for the likes of Harper’s Bazaar, Bidoun, and Purple. She is at her happiest filling up a rental Prius with BB guns, motorcycle helmets, fur pelts, and teenage boys, which is exactly what she did for one of this issue’s fashion spreads. When we asked the modest Annabel for more factoids about herself to fill out this bio, she told us that she “loves to swim in the icy waters off the coast of Maine,” “spent her time at Coachella dancing the electric slide with Beyoncé,” “grew up in San Francisco behind a eucalyptus forest,” “brakes for boiled peanuts,” and “hates cheese.” Sounds like a sure-fire recipe for awesomeness to us.
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