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 MEXICO’S BURNING
Marco Antonio Cruz, the director of Imagen Latina, an independent photo agency based in Mexico City, spent a few weeks in December of last year, 1993, taking portraits of blind people in the mountains of Chiapas, the southernmost and poorest state in Mexico, for an ongoing project he had been working on. Right before Christmas, he went home to Mexico City to spend the holidays with his family. After partying...
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 NARCOTIC FILMS FOR ILLEGAL FANS
The Mexican Videohome Industry Makes Movies for the MassesDuring the last few years, Mexican directors have received unprecedented international recognition. Movies like Babel, Amores perros, Silent Light, Y tu mamá también, and Pan’s Labyrinth have won awards at film festivals all over the world. Actors like Gael Garc&iac...
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 FREEWHEELIN’
Photos by Roberta Ridolfi
Styling by Lauren Grant...
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 HARRI PECCINOTTI
Every photographer who’s made a career out of pressing shutter buttons in front of beautiful women owes a great debt to Harri Peccinotti. He was the first person to consistently capture the sexuality of everyday activities on camera: subversively pleasing sights like girls carefully sucking on popsi...
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 SQUAT THRUSTS
The Fight to Occupy São Paulo’s Abandoned SkyscrapersThe Prestes Maia building was once home to the largest concentration of squatters in Latin America. Condemned and abandoned for 12 years, the once-glorious skyscraper had become a shithole infested with roaches, rats, and criminal activity among the widespread squalor of downtown São Paulo. In ...
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 BLOODY MEMORIES
Storied Artifacts from the Carandiru Prison MassacreThroughout the 90s, São Paulo’s House of Detention contained approximately 8,000 of Latin America’s most violent criminals. Better known as Carandiru, it was once the largest prison on the continent. On October 2, 1992, a massive fight broke out between prisoners that ultimately res...
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 PARIS IS NOT A SOFT CHEESE
Fashion people love to eat shit like radish sprout salad with bulgur sprinkled with gomasio and algae, so that's what I ordered when I sat down with Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld biographer Alicia Drake and Kate Moss biographer Francoise-Marie Santucci. You know, to put them at ease. But the...
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 THE BIGGEST COMIC BOOK EVER
Kramers Ergot Isn't Just "Isn't Just for Kids Anymore" AnymoreIn early 2000, a husky Los Angeles fellow named Sammy Harkham threw together a comics zine with some of his friends and gave it the weird, possibly very pretentious name of Kramers Ergot. And it was good. And so were Kramers Ergot 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. But now, nine years on, Harkham has ...
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 MEXICAN GIRLS ON FOUR-WHEELERS
I Love Going HomeMy mom was born in a small town in western Mexico called Cotija, Michoacán. Although few people know about it, everyone owes this town a debt for giving the world the delicious Cotija cheese, some chubby Catholic saint, and one of Mexico's most infamous...
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 LIFE IN THE JUNGLE
Calais is the closest point in France to the United Kingdom. Besides that distinction, it's basically sort of a shithole. And besides that distinction, Calais is also where thousands of refugees to France from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and Somalia congregate in a massive, sprawling camp of imp...
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 BERLIN'S CITY OF NIGHT
The Motzstraße is the epicenter of Berlin's gay sex scene. Here you can find dildos, poppers, S&M gear, S&M videos, S&M magazines, chokers, masks, harnesses, cock rings, anal lube, anal beads, those dildos that have fake horse tails on the end so you look like a horsey when you have it shoved up you...
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 STUCK IN SASKATOON
The corner of Avenue C and 20th Street West in the heart of Riversdale, Saskatoon, is in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Canada. On a recent evening, the only open businesses here were a Chinese restaurant up the road and a pawnshop. Everything else was either locked up for the night or abandone...
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 DR. LAKRA HAS A TATTOO OF A DEMON PEEING ON JESUS’S FACE
Vice: Where did you get the name Dr. Lakra? What kind of doctor are you?
Dr. Lakra: When I started tattooing around 1991, I would always carry around a doctor's briefcase, and someone gave me that nickname-I'm a lakra doctor, the kind that gives people lakras. Look it up in...
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 FRENCHMAN ANGELO DI MARCO BELIEVES IN MORAL ABSOLUTES
Angelo di Marco takes random human-interest stories and turns them into horrorific masterpieces of draftsmanship. French people are crazy about his work. His drawings have been in pretty much every newspaper over there during the past five decades, as well as on billboards and in countless magazines...
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 IN THE CARDS
Tarot Readings for a Few Girls We KnowPhotos by Chris Shonting
Styling by Annette Lamothe-Ramos...
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 AN EX-BULLFIGHTER
A bull named Terciopelo [Velvet] gored the Colombian bullfighter Álvaro Múnera, aka "El Pilarico," in 1984, confining him to a wheelchair for life. Múnera was 18 years old back then. His best friend, "El Yiyo," was gored to death months later, and the manager of both bullfighters committed suicide t...
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