VICE Magazine to return

Vice Media says next month, VICE turns 30 and has announced it is relaunching VICE Magazine as part of a new subscription service.

According to the publisher, the return of VICE Magazine begins with The Photo Issue, a perennial since its inception by Ryan McGinley in 2001. For the latest instalment VICE says it embarked on a global search to find 20 emerging photographers from Vietnam to Russia to Brooklyn who are all exploring what’s next in photography.

Following at the start of 2025, the publisher says its next issue will feature long-form reporting from across the world, new (and returning) columnists, music reviews, confessions, and its round-up of the month’s best gifs, and guides.

VICE says it is launching a new subscription service to deliver four magazines a year directly to readers’ doors, worldwide. The subscription will also give readers access to online exclusives—like extended films that are too risqué for social media.

The magazine’s return is already well underway, added VICE. Over the next couple of days, free copies of the brand new 2024 Photo Issue will be available at some of its favorite photography labs, bars, and local businesses in New York City and London, including Bushwick Community Darkroom and photodom (NYC), and magCulture and Photobook Cafe (London).

The publisher says the return of the printed magazine is 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.