Vice‘s annual photo issue is on stands now (this year’s theme: “Still Lifes”), and it contains eye candy from the likes of Spike Jonze, Tim Barber, Ryan McGinley, Catherine Opie, and Terry Richardson. To help celebrate its release, the magazine is staging a week-long exhibition of work by one of its favorite lensmen, pro skateboarder Jerry Hsu. Preview a few of his photos from The Torture Never Stops after the jump, and click here to explore all of the work featured in the new issue.

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Does Asger Carlsen‘s camera capture a hallucinatory dimension or is he toying with us? The Danish-born, New York-based photographer has a twisted view of the world, which he exhibited at Stockholm’s V1 Gallery this spring and shares in his new book, Wrong. Recently released by Morel, the savvy British publisher that previously put out books by Ryan McGinley, Ed Templeton, and Stella Vine, Wrong offers a surreal selection of Carlsen’s seamlessly doctored images. Through the artist’s digital manipulation, ostriches become part human, people sport stick legs, and dogs attack funky sculptures.

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In honor of this evening’s lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, we’ve pulled together a few favorite photographs of the various incarnations of coniferous trees, the emblem of the holiday season.

In the mix: out in the desert, Mike Sinclair and Stephen Antonopoulos capture the glory of the beginning and the bitter end of the tree’s journey from farm lot to disposal. In Tim Barber’s photograph a truck and tree make a great getaway, gliding off stealthily in the fog. A tiny tree is lost in a bright, white sterile room, as photographed by Joseph O. Holmes. And Daniel Cheek, Emily Shur, Trent Parke, and Brent Clark make light of suburban holiday situations.

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Jesse Pearson is the editor of Vice Magazine. He’s also incredibly nice for hopping on the phone with us just two hours before Vice has a show opening at New York’s Spencer Brownstone Gallery. The 2009 Vice Magazine Photography Exhibition features work from Terry Richardson, Ryan McGinley, Tim Barber, and a host of other art world stars, all pulled from their annual Photo Issue, which is on stands now.

Flavorpill: How do you guys go about selecting who is going to be involved with the Photo Issue each year?

Jesse Pearson: The photo department right now is basically just me. A couple of other people give input, but we don’t have a photo editor per se — I kind of handle both. In terms of what goes in, there are always the people who we work with a lot who I go to and say, “OK, what do you have that’s new?” They’ll show me some projects and tell me some ideas they’ve been thinking about doing. Sometimes the shape of the issue will come out of what some of my favorite contributors tell me or show me. Throughout the year I’m also keeping my eye out for new photographers, younger kids and stuff like that. Read More »