Mike Stacey

VANILLA LIFE (Issue 2)

Added 2020-05-13 20:33:13 +0000 UTC

Vanilla Life was a magazine containing some of my best work at the time. I prepared the images, designed and laid out the mag myself then had it printed by MagCloud. There were two issues published - available both as high quality print magazines and also as digital e-Mags. It was a huge investment of time and money to make these mags. Sales were poor to say the least, but it was a personal passion to create them.

This issue #2 of Vanilla Life was the best of the two mags, both in terms of photography and print quality. You can see a preview of the contents page in this post. There are three editorials spread across 122 pages, featuring Shasta Wonder, Sylph Sia and Romahni Rose. All images of which were shot at Sydney locations. There is also an article about finding your own artistic and personal voice as a photographic artist with images of Anoush Anou.

The price when ordered through MagCloud is around USD$30 plus postage. Postage to Europe for example is around USD$11.

So, if you'd like a printed version, and I can highly recommend this option, go to my MagCloud account here: https://www.magcloud.com/user/mikestacey

You can download a high rez digital copy here on Patreon if you are a member of the $10 tier or higher level tiers. Just go this post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/37078734

I would love to make some more issues of this mag - in fact Issue #3 was half finished before being abandoned a couple of years ago. I'd also love to publish a separate mag containing some of the best work I've done with Aurora (Poetic Minx). Either of these two ideas though would take investments in time and money that I no longer have. If you'd be interested in helping fund one or both projects, that'd be hugely appreciated of course.