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NEW YORK - WELCOME TO THE PHOTO ISSUE

We've been griping for a while about the dearth of text and the bounty of images in zines these days, stamping a moratorium on the coverage of such aliterate publications, and then we go and make one, except glossy and in full color and not in a limited run of ten only available to the friends we think will "get it," or who at least are in a cool band. Funny how life works.

Kicking things off is a select handful of self-portraits from Keiichi Nitta, one of Terry Richardson's closest assistants for years, until he up and moved to Japan. These come from a series called "100K," a title in reference to his plan to photograph himself as 100 cultural figures: 100 Keiichis, get it? In an ominously timely move, we picked that Sharpie-nostriled Michael Jackson image of him as the first thing you see for this issue before the guy in the glove went and caused an ocean of tears in which we're supposed to swim every time we go out now (so ease up on the Beat It, DJs). Keiichi just released a book called Bowery Boys. Here are some images from it.