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Hi there, we're Elizabeth and Matthew, VICE's resident photography experts. Last year, we did a roundup of our favorite photos featured by VICE in 2014. We thought it was cool, and who doesn't like looking at pictures, so we made another gallery of our faves from 2015. But, before the images commence, here is a quote from Thomas Roma, the renowned photographer who runs Columbia University's photography program. It's one of many moments of sage wisdom that was cut from our latest interview with Roma, and it captures one of the many reasons photography is so important to us.
"I don't read a book constantly thinking about the author. Books I love I constantly relate to on my own—I think of myself, they're part of my life. Same thing when you look at a film, it becomes part of your cultural, psychological, political experience. You go out in the world after seeing a certain film, you see the world a little differently. Read Beloved, you read Toni Morrison, and you think, all of a sudden everything looks different. Read The Catcher in the Rye when you're young, all of a sudden you think differently. Art is supposed to raise your consciousness, if only temporarily."
These are some of the photographs that changed our world in 2015.
Photo by Dru Donovan from Positions Taken
Photo by Martin Slepcik from Lunik IX Buds
Photo by Lara Shipley from Workampers
From Jason Lazarus's ongoing project Too Hard to Keep
Photo by Zora J Murff from Corrections
Photo by Sohrab Hura from The Lost Head and the Bird
Photo by Kevin Zucker from Wintering
Photo by Pete Voelker from An Insignificant Impact
Photo by Michael Coles from Witness to a Massacre
Photo by Stacy Kranitz from her ongoing series Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold my Body Down.
Photo by Juan Madrid from Catskill
Cover of The Earth Died Screaming Issue by Steve Smith
Photo by Manon Quérouil and Véronique de Viguerie from The Sand Looters
Photo by Andrew Litchtenstein's series Life in Prison
'After Marcel Duchamp' by Anthony Costa, Jessica Frankl, Mikaela Keen Lumongsod, Frankie Mule, Gabrielia Priyma, Balazs Sebok, and Valeriya Vaynerman from Artsy Nudes
Photo by Michael Bailey-Gates from Angels
Photo by Matthew Leifheit from Leif: Boi Wonder
Photo by Elizabeth Renstrom from Fruit Salad with Laurie Anderson
Photo by Bryson Rand from The Love Trip
Photo by Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert from Drag Queens of San Francisco
Photo by Joseph Maida from A Place in the Sun: The Goth Scene in Hawaii
From Jaimie Warren's Horrorfest 2015
Photo by Eli Durst from Bowling
Photo by Bobby Scheidemann from Combustible Materials
Photo by Lindokuhle Sobekwa from Deep Hanging
Photo by Meredith Talusan from How the Killing of a Trans Filipina Woman Ignited an International Incident
Photo by Thomas Roma from In the Vale of Cashmere
Photo by Lijie Zhang from Portraits of Blind Children in Rural China
Photo by Robert Melee from Mommy
Photo by Bieke Depoorter/Magnum Photos from Night Journeys in Sète
Photo by Josef Hoflehner from The Air Marshall
Elizabeth Renstrom is photo editor of VICE, and Matthew Leifheit is VICE's photo editor-at-large. See more photos we love here, updated daily.
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