VICE Magazine Presents
The Not The Photo Issue
- * 184 pages of psyche-shattering images
- * Ad-free bumper issue is twice the usual length
- * An iconoclastic take on VICE’s cherished The Photo Issue
- * Ships worldwide or read online
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“In time, we will come to see the (partial) release of the Epstein files as the point at which reality started to collapse. This, combined with generative AI and live-streamed war, is profoundly altering our relationship with images, making it impossible to know what or who to trust. The Not The Photo Issue marks this moment, asking which pictures are still hitting hard, and why?”
BEN DITTO, Global Editorial Director
VICE Magazine
“We wanted to make a magazine that wasn’t just a more boring version of your phone.”
KEVIN LEE KHARAS, Editor in Chief
VICE Magazine
Inside the Issue
The VICE Propaganda Report
How shady forces are using images to melt your brain.
Dystopian Manchester Fight Porn
Clive Martin witnesses abject violence at the physical frontline of the global culture wars.
The Real-Life Replicant Hunter
By night, he stops bots ripping off your horny dad. By day, he stops them nuking the world.
Adam Curtis Meets Dean Kissick
The planet’s most beguiling documentarian and least boring art critic discuss the future of everything you ought to care about.
Phantom Pain (in the Ass)
The internet’s most annoying cry babies are getting a cruel comeuppance.
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Launch Night in Photos
The party we threw for The Be Quiet and Drive Issue, shot by Bob Foster @bobfoster_
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