Welcome to the Photo Issue 2015 | VICE | United States

The images in this year’s photo issue, produced in collaboration with Magnum Photos, all came into the world through the same social documentary impulse. When Magnum was founded, in 1947, two years after the end of the Second World War, its four original members—Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and David “Chim” Seymour—were motivated by a curiosity about what it looked like to live in the remains of the war’s atrocities and destruction. The cooperative was established as a community of photographic authors, allied in an effort to fully chronicle the world and interpret the way that people inhabited it.