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Models Aireen Arcigal Ana Andreea Tomouanu Brandon Jerrod Britany Baylis Carmen Cade Chase Watkins Darria James Lilspittle Marcella Grassi Minh Ly Morgan Torres Nicholas Krauss Samantha Fleury Sasha Warweg Tyler Costa Tyna Kottova Vicky Richter
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elcome back! What better way to begin a new year - and a new decade - than to release our best and biggest issue yet! Again, we’ve created two amazing volumes – one for Europe and one for the Americas. In all, more than 200 pages of some of the best black and white portraiture work around, covering multiple genres. A word of warning though. This issue is perhaps far more risqué than previous issues – and we make no apology for that. Just after new year, we had an image banned from Instagram for violating their community guidelines regarding nudity. After first getting past the anger at having an image banned, I asked for a review – after all, this particular image didn’t contain nudity (sexual innuendo, sure, but nudity? No.) As of today, this amazing image is still banned. Social media companies have become so entrenched in the human psyche, the danger of those very same private companies controlling art and culture is disturbing. As I reflected on that very same platform just before the end of the year: “As we’re about to enter the third decade of the 21st century, we’re saddened to still be required to censor such beautiful images - all the while as violence and hate on those very same social media platforms goes mainly unchallenged day by day. Imagine if the art of Ancient Greece, or the Renaissance, or the Neoclassicism or Romanticism eras, or even the works of the Impressionists, Surrealists or Post-Modernists had been required to scribble over the nipples they had painted and sculpted!“ The level of hatred on social media platforms is insane. We’ve seen massacres, murders and gang rapes live streamed, we’ve seen videos of beheadings, we’ve seen opinions and views that make any decent person shudder, and we’ve seen or heard of incessant bullying of the young and vulnerable – yet social media companies continue to wage war on the one thing we all have in common, our bodies. To be frank, their preoccupation with nipples and pubic hair is actually unhealthy. So this issue of Vertiqlè Magazine is deliberately more risqué than normal. Why? Because this is our platform, and so long as hate and violence stay off it, the beauty of the human body in its uncensored form is always welcome.
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LACE New Jersey, USA Photographer: ANDREW FOORD Model: BRITANY BAYLIS Model: BRANDON JERROD Hair & Makeup: AURALIS FLORES
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desert siren Pasadena, USA Photographer: BENJAMIN SUMNER FRANKE Model: TYNA KOTTOVA
“Tyna looked like some strange desert witch, an apparition in black lace atop a canyon cliffside. I enjoyed capturing her on Ilford HP5 on my Olympus OM-2n as the sun dropped along the horizon.”
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ATTACKS Tampa, USA Photographer & Model: RAPHAEL TAFT
“A self-portrait series documenting the evolution of anxiety from internal angst and mental suffocation from excessive thinking.”
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DANCE? Chicago, USA Photographer: FABIO BUITRAGO Models: CARMEN CADE & NICHOLAS KRAUSS
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TATOUÉ EN POINTE Leipzig, Deutschland Photographer: NICK CURLY Model: VICKY RICHTER
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ow trust me when I say I’m not one for trigger warnings - fuck, life just isn’t like that. You take it as it comes, the good, the bad and the ugly. If you don’t like something, you just keep going. But, since I hate hate-speak as much as I hate trigger warnings, I feel compelled to mention that in the following pages you might see parts of Vicky’s body that will invariably offend some people. If you do, that’s ok, everyone is different. But my advice would be “you just keep going.” Either get through the next six pages or skip ahead to page 90. Either way, don’t write in telling me how disgusted you were. The one thing we all have in common is our bodies - small, large, thin, fat, black, white. For fuck sake, just take a breath and some time to admire its beauty. Oh, and kudos to Vicky Richter for sharing. The images are beautiful.
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new life Calgary, Canada Photographer: KELVIN VINX COMENDADOR Model: AIREEN ARCIGAL Makeup: GYPSY BABAO MARTINEZ
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