The Photo Issue 2014
From the 2014 VICE Photo Issue: If It’s in Your Nature You’ll Never Win
Syria is a leading producer of Ramadan soap operas, and few directors have stirred more controversy than Najdat Anzour. During Ramadan 2013, Anzour released Under the Homeland’s Sky, a controversial take on Syria’s civil war that sympathizes...
From the 2014 VICE Photo Issue: Spirit and Matter
"All of my work sits in both the documentary tradition and the constructed tradition. The women in the photographs—those are their clothes, they are in a real space. But it is a complicated idea of what is truth; photography’s just like the eye."
From the 2014 VICE Photo Issue: "Corporate Art Is Gross"
For this year's Photo Issue, Jamie Lee Curtis Taete installed some bland-looking pictures of gross stuff in corporate settings where they might pass as pleasant abstractions.
Black and White Sunsets
Kevin Zucker creates analog color Polaroids of sunsets by shooting through gray sheets of translucent plastic. They're meant to convince us of something impossible: a color photo of a black-and-white sunset.
From the VICE Photo Issue 2014: Roxana Azar
Roxana Azar's warped images of nature are just what you need to pretend that you're out in the woods somewhere coming down off mescaline instead of sitting at your desk, staring at a screen, and reading VICE at work. Check out more in this year's <a...
From the VICE Photo Issue 2014: Dr. Harold Edgerton
Photos by Dr. Harold Edgerton, inventor of the electronic flash, from the VICE Photo Issue 2014
Trompe L’Oeil
What do photographs want from us? Why won’t they leave us alone? We create them, and they surround us, hold us captive, demand and extract psychic ransom. We allow ourselves to be overtaken by them and then wonder why we can’t stop taking them, or look...
William Mortensen
Written into a footnote by the “straight photography” school of the 1950s, William Mortensen was referred to as “the Antichrist” by Ansel Adams, a tag that stuck after Anton LaVey dedicated The Satanic Bible to him. Primarily known as a Hollywood...