We’re Reemerging. What Does the World Look Like Now?
VICE Magazine’s Reemergence Issue considers in real time how we cope while living through a historic time.
The Pandemic Tested My Family Relationships. Where Do We Go From Here?
I’ve spent a decade caught between the secular world and the Haredi Jewish community. But watching the latter resist COVID-19 restrictions while being decimated by the virus pushed that tension to the brink.
Love in Lagos
Photographer Isabel Okoro returns to Lagos, Nigeria, to find the pandemic brought a new element of intimacy and community to her home.
To See How Well a Country Handled COVID, Look at Its Airports
After flying 22,906 miles, I found that airports represent much more than borders and entry points—they’re microcosms of a government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Will Anyone Think of HR?
Over the course of the pandemic, Human Resources employees have been tasked with a challenging predicament: how to manage a highly unstable work environment and take care of themselves, too.
Photographing an Isolating Normalcy
To make sense of his new surroundings, photographer Chad Rhym set out to document his experience as a double-conscious outsider: a new home in a new reality.
What Can I Be Hopeful About in the 2020s?
It’s difficult to avoid pessimism in a lethargic, shell-shocked, post-pandemic world. So I turned to the experts.
How the Pandemic Changed Antarctica
Researchers returning home from Antarctica ‘left one world and have come back to another.’ But while their lives were in stasis, the continent they live on continued to struggle under the weight of diplomatic pressures and environmental concerns.
The Cult of Busyness
A life of leisure was once the aspiration of the upper class. But now, bragging about busyness is how people indicate their status. Could a pandemic change the way busyness is glorified?
The Resurrection of the Iconic British Seaside
Popular in the decades before affordable commercial flights, COVID turned seaside resort towns into sought-after summer escapes again. Photographer Sophie Green caught it all.
The Pandemic Let Us Exist Without Being Perceived. Some Don’t Want That to End
With lockdown measures starting to lift, it’s normal to feel anxious about being seen again.
Australia Was a Big Pandemic Hideaway for Celebrities. Will They Stick Around?
The continent probably won’t hold onto the new Hollywood, but it has become the site of an old pattern.