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Resolve and the willingness to get down and dirty are two of the defining factors of VICE Magazine’s Photo Issue 2016. This year's edition is filled with photos of Israeli female soldiers, members of the National Women’s Soccer League, and the the town of Vallejo, the former capital of California, and so much more, from a veritable horde of incredible female photographers. As VICE’s photo editor, Elizabeth Renstrom, puts it in her introduction, “There is no such thing as an impatient photographer. Photography requires more than DMV-style endurance.” Indicative of a measured style and a willingness to wait around for photo development, the 186-page issue is coming to a quasi-gallery setting this weekend. The VICE magazine 2016 photo show arrives in Brooklyn for a proper showcase September 24th at Industria Super Studios.
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Sandy Kim
This year's issue and show meditate on the time-consuming and unharried practice of photography, a merit to the art form's authenticity. As Renstrom puts it, “[I]n an era where people often measure content by volume rather than quality, we like to think this issue proves that good things still come to those who wait.”
Naomi Harris
This year’s issue threw out the idea of an explicit theme or photograph style, with the editors choosing instead to focus on the creatives behind the camera. Every name spotlighted in the issue belongs to a female photographer who contributed the time, grit, and substantial life blood to express her artistic vision. As Renstrom explains, the choice to highlight female photographers was not a piece of pandering clickbait, but about the juncture of resilience and what is rightfully all women’s: “So if patience is a photographer’s virtue, then the particular patience of the female photographer—long neglected by represented ably by those featured in those issue—is a story worth telling in full.” The photo issue includes 38 diverse photographers.
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