The first edition of Renell Medrano ’s Ice Magazine was styled as “the coldest magazine on Earth” for good reason. Inspired by Medrano’s collections of Players magazines—a ’70s publication often nicknamed the “Black Playboy ”—the first issue reclaimed Black sensuality with a cast of women of all body shapes (and nail lengths) from Medrano’s home city, New York.

The Dominican-American, New York-based photographer, who has shot everyone from Solange and Kendrick Lamar to Bad Bunny , Lorde, and SWAG -era Justin Bieber and family, has now set her sights on the women of Atlanta for issue two. They’re the “Georgia Peaches,” with rap superstar Eve among them.

The first issue was ambitious and free-wheeling—Medrano breezily put out a casting call for a not-yet-fully-formed pr

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