Volume 21 Issue 7
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...
Jaimie Warren: 'Self-Portrait as Pennywise the Clown'
Performance artist Joseph Keckler provides some context for the nativity scene Jaimie Warren made for the VICE photo issue 2014.
Observable Surfaces
Still lives and landscapes by Richard Renaldi, with a short excerpt from an interview about truth in photography
Thurston Moore (9/10/13) by Jason Lazarus
In 2013, I had a ten-minute portrait session with Thurston Moore. I handed him a sheet of 8.5-by-11-inch paper and asked him to fold it in a way that evoked where music might be in ten years. Without hesitation he sat down and quickly crafted an...
VICE Photo Issue 2014: Jason Nocito's PUD
For the 2014 VICE photography issue, Nocito made us a brand new PUD.