• by Ray Schultz , September 25, 2024

Vice Magazine is back in print. Free copies of its new Photo Issue will be available this week at photography labs, bars and local businesses in New York and London, Vice announced. 

In addition, Vice is launching a subscription service that will deliver the four print issues per year. 

The Photo Issue features 20 emerging photographers from “Vietnam to Russia to Brooklyn who are all exploring what’s next in photography,” writes Kevin Lee Kharas on Vice.com. 

The next issue, which will appear early in 2025, will present long-form reporting from across the world.

This follows a rough period for Vice, one filled with bankruptcy and layoffs.

In May 2023, Vice filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and was subsequently acquired by a group of creditors, including Fortress Investment Group, Soros Fund Management and Monroe Growth Capital, for an estimated $350 million.   

But the publisher has since narrowed its focus and seeks to provide “best-in-class content to distributors around the world,” a spokesperson told Axios last May. 

“The return of our printed magazine is us reconnecting Vice to what, at heart, it has really always been: a loose community of people with a shared love of wild stories, arguments, and stupid jokes,” Kharas writes. 

Kharas adds, “It will be full of pictures that you will want to show your friends, stories you will steal and present to your friends as your own, and acidic social commentary, written by a gang of charlatans, losers, and freaks redeemed only by the occasional burst of clarity.”