Now that Ryanair is making transatlantic flights it’s going to be interesting to see how far the BAs and Virgin Atlantics of this world are gonna go to keep their customers.Comments/Enlarge |
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These guys remind me of what vikings would have been like if they were slightly more courteous and also dressed like gaylords.Comments/Enlarge |
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Cover photo by Ragnar Persson
RUSSIAN ROULETTE The Children of Soviet AIDS Starting in the 80s, AIDS hit the United States and Europe in two waves. First came the actual disease, the thing you can get that kills you dead. Then came the massive piles of info, stats, debate, and talk. Almost two decades later, we challenge you to find ...READ MORE
HOLY HEROIN Photos and Text by Tanya Habjouqa There are about 6,000 junkies living in East Jerusalem, the area Israel captured (or recaptured) from Jordan during the Six-Day War. Unlike the rest of the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority has no control over the region, which has resulted in more or less ...READ MORE
ENRIQUE METINIDES IS OUR NEW FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPHER He photographed crime scenes in Mexico City for 50 years. How did we not know about this guy until now? Here, Metinides talks to Vice about his life and his work. Imagine if he was your grandpa...READ MORE
MARAS: AMERICA'S FUTURE Photos by Victor J. Blue On the morning of August 15, 2005, jailed members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang threw three grenades, smuggled in by prison guards, into a dormitory housing members of the Mara 18 at the El Hoyon prison in Escuintla, Guatemala. They then walked in and shot or s...READ MORE
INSIDE PYONGYANG Getting into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes Vice has ever dealt with. After we went back and forth with their representatives for months, they finally said they were going to allow 16 journalists into the country to cover the ...READ MORE
KABUL'S FORGOTTEN KIDS Photos by Massoud Hossaini Afghanistan has been cranking out war orphans for nearly 30 years. It's like a national industry. The present tally for Afghan children who have lost or been separated from their parents during the war is 2 million nationwide. In a country where kids under 18 ...READ MORE
DAYS OF THATCHER Photos by John Sturrock In July 1981, Liverpool police arrested Leroy Cooper in front of a large crowd in the poor, black Toxteth neighborhood. The arrest, carried out with the force's then-customary casual brutality, served as a flash point for pent-up rage at police harassment in t...READ MORE
THE STUDENT ARMY OF BURMA Photos and Text by Richelle Forsey A few years ago I lived in one of the ABSDF's seven military camps along the Thai/Indonesian/ Chinese border. The All Burma Students' Democratic Front are a student army fighting for democracy in their home nation. They formed in November of 1988...READ MORE
US AND THEM Photos and Text by Jan Van Ijken This photo story is all about the complex relationship that people have with animals. It's about how animals become consumer products for people, objects for medical research to benefit humanity, and also how we use them for love and affection...READ MORE
LITTLE ENGLAND IN SRI LANKA Photos by Martin Parr Words by Susie Parr At first glance, Nuwara Eliya seems a typical Sri Lankan town. Pineapple, jackfruit, mango, avocado and plantain spill from roadside stalls. The call to prayer wails out. Buzzing tuk-tuks and the roar of the mighty TATA lorries and buses scatter the crowds, ho...READ MORE
WRESTLERS OF THE CONGO Photos and Text by Benedicte Curzen In the Congo, wrestling is just as popular as it is in America. The main difference between wrestling in the US and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is that the Congolese like to introduce a mystical, magical "voodoo" element to the pantomime. So as well...READ MORE
DAMIANO NAVA This girl's name is Florinda. I met her in Bologna at a 24-hour cigarette dispenser. The machine had just stolen her money. We started talking, one thing led to another, and we went for dinner the next night. I took this picture at her house, but nothing ever ...READ MORE
LADS ON PATROL Photos by Kalpesh Lathigra My photos follow the daily lives of British Army soldiers living in a UK bubble in the middle of the desert. They are stationed in the Helmand district of Afghanistan, which is at the heart of the conflict between the Taliban and the West...READ MORE
JONATHAN BLACK On February 3, 2006, two weeks after Laura and I got married at City Hall, she got into a terrible bike accident. She doesn't remember what happened and there were no witnesses. They found her lying two blocks away from the restaurant she worked at. She had fl...READ MORE
MY LITTLE DEAD DICK My Little Dead Dick is the visual diary of two photographers, she from China and he from the USA. They got together on July 17, 2006, when they both traveled to Macau in order to meet face-to-face after a month of intense internet correspondence. After ...READ MORE
CAROLIN LESZCZINSKI This is from many years ago. I always photographed this boy because he looked so great and he would do whatever I wanted. We went to school together in Amsterdam. Afterward I went to visit him in Pennsylvania and I stayed with him at his parents' house while t...READ MORE
ISABELLA ROZENDAAL Friendship is very important to me. These photos are all of my good friend Wyne Veen. Wyne was in most of my photos for a long time for obvious reasons: She was always around and she is quite pretty. She looks good with or without clothes. This is a very conve...READ MORE
WILLA & SACHI NASATIR This is Alexa. Last year we went to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for a summer high school program. I'm 16. We were just hanging out in the park that day and I took a photo of her wearing my sunglasses. My friend had stolen a bunch of Polaroi...READ MORE
MATT GUNTHER I cast this girl because I like that she takes her clothes off instantly, no qualms about it...READ MORE
RYAN FOERSTER I went to Melbourne last year for an art show. I didn't know many people there. I met Ana and Hanna and we became really good friends. This was at my pre-birthday-party party-just the three of us naked, having a sand-throwing contest. They let me stay on their...READ MORE
PAUL KNEALE This photo was taken on the west coast of Ireland near a town where there are 10,000 people and 55 pubs. We were going for a bike ride on these mountain roads where all kinds of people get killed in car wrecks and not long after I took this photo we got caught...READ MORE
KAKAIBANG EBA Photos by Federica Palmarin These lovely ladies from the Philippine island of Cebu are named Ping Ping, Booba, Paige, Nicksie, and Candy. They are performers in the "Amazing Philippine Show," a hugely popular theatrical variety revue full of all kinds of razzle-dazzle, including folk dan...READ MORE
SPIKE JONZE This is Mark Gonzales doing an indie grab at a skate park in Tijuana. This was a supersketchy spot in a bad neighborhood. There were all these rumors that cops would show up there and you would have to pay them a bribe or get arrested. We'd driven to Mexico in...READ MORE
JONNIE CRAIG These pictures are of my friends Nick, Charlotte and Andy. They were taken on a Holga medium format camera that cost me £25 from eBay. I go to a photography college in South London and it annoys me because everybody walks around posing with expensive digital S...READ MORE
GAVIN WATSON Photos of Ex-Girlfriends KELLEY
"I first met Kelley in 1983 at an 18th birthday party. She was the only punk there and I was the only skinhead. Everybody else looked like Kevs and Norms so it was love at first...READ MORE
I GOT A MATCH: YOUR FACE AND MY ASS Butts are like snowflakes-no two are the same and they're fun to catch on your tongue. Hahaha, ew. Anyway, we've got six girls and six butts here. Can you tell whose are whose? And which one would you most like to lay your weary head on?...READ MORE
