BLUR MAGAZINE

Blur magazine 30

robart — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:00:25 +0000

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The time has come for BLUR to have a price in order to survive and continue to thrive. But we don’t feel comfortable in setting that price. We are here to support art. So, we will allow you, the valued readers of BLUR, to decide how much you’re willing to spend for the latest issues of BLUR with a minimum price set at an essentially symbolic $1.00. Wasn’t BLUR free?

A WORD FROM THE EDITOR

If I had a say in it, the New Year would begin in spring instead of in the middle of winter. Watching the beauty of nature’s reawakening, one can only see it as a new beginning. However, we humans aren’t dormant during the winter like the rest of the natural world, so the calendar New Year is a good as time as any to make decisions whose results might bloom in spring.

Our BLUR team had a very active winter and set some ambitious goals for 2013, and we’re waiting for the first results to sprout and show their colors. However, we still have some work to do to get everything ready, and what’s not yet done in spite of our wishes can be conveniently blamed on the unexpectedly long winter and cold days.

This issue is somewhat different from our usual crop, as we’re doing our best to avoid predictability. Our cover page usually features an attractive female model, but this time we chose an artistic portrait of a handsome man. And in this issue, CLOSE UP is dedicated to portraits, mostly of children and the elderly, while INSTANTION focuses on agriculture and nature instead of people and architecture. OPEN features the theme of couples in love, while PROEYECT brings us simple summer reminiscence. To avoid sounding like an advertising jingle, I’ll let you discover everything for yourself – continue on to enjoy 200 pages of the best creative photography in the world that we could uncover for you.

Robert Gojević | founder | editor in chief

CLOSE-UP | Mahesh Balasubramanian | India

“By tradition, India is rich in colors. Our tradition/culture, streets, houses, and wherever you go, you see lots of color. I too love colors. I have seen many black and white photos/movies of legends. Those inspired me and got into my photography. I prefer black and white when it comes to portraits. The primary subject in most of my portraits is the eyes. I strive to portray the inner heart and soul through the expressions in the eyes. I believe that through the subject’s eyes and expression, one can get a feeling of the person’s emotions, state of mind, happiness or sorrow. For this, I don’t want color to distract from what I want to show the world.”

PROJECT | Mac Oller | Poland

“From the moment I released a shutter for the first time, photography to me became more than just a hobby. It is mostly an individual way of looking at the world, observing reality through the prism of frame and composition.”

WET PLATE | Jody Ake | USA

„I believe collodion is attractive to most people right now because it is the opposite of digital. With digital we can take hundreds of images without much thought. The effort to take a photograph has been diminished to just the push of a button. Instead of spending the day in the darkroom, photographers now spend their time in front of computers. The lack of physical interaction with the photograph has caused many artists to disassociate themselves with the process of making images. Collodion requires the photographer to interact with every step of the image-making process.“

INSTANTION | Caleb Jenkins | USA

“My love lies in the world of film. I began experimenting with an old family SLR from the 70s, and I cherished every bit of it. The fact that the photos would exist in a physical form after development was enthralling to me. With each new roll of film being shot, my curiosity grew larger.”

PLAYSTICK | James Arnold | UK

“James Arnold is a small, bald photographer and graphic designer, originally from Northern England. He likes cheese and pickle sandwiches, composting, and holidays in Cornwall. General hobbies include cycling along country lanes, feeding garden birds, playing the ukulele, and starting small fires.”

PINHOLE | Ky Lewis | UK

“This series of images looks into the transience of the figure in the landscape both at the coast and further inland. The draw of the coastal setting was important to me because I needed to capture moments in time that reflected both the ephemeral nature of the figure against an ever-shifting background.”

ANALOG WABI SABI | Shirobayashi Kiriko | Japan

„Being raised as a traditional Japanese girl in this chaotic world, I have experienced many inconsistencies. Japan is like a dumpling in which mixed and minced contents are wrapped neatly. I have been incorporating traditional Japanese philosophy and culture into my work with an attempt to form my own interpretations of Japanese tradition. “

TETRA | Alexei Krasnikov | Russia

„The sea – on some days it was calm and quiet, on others it was energetic, throwing tons of water onto solid rocks. The sky changed rapidly from dramatic to peaceful. And what was very important, all of this could be enjoyed in a lonely atmosphere, with almost no people around. I concentrated totally on the Islands, on the energy they radiated and emotions they woke in me. I watched the sea. I watched the rocks. I watched their interaction.“

WIDE | Hans Kruse | Denmark

„Yes, I love nature very much, like the pure and wild nature, but I really also love the cultivated landscapes with human elements (rural landscape and villages). During the workshops I organize, we have wonderful moments sharing the experience of being in nature at, for example, early sunrises with the serene beauty and calmness of a cold morning when the light slowly illuminates the landscape. The most beautiful moments are not necessarily those that make the best photographs though. “

OPEN | Robert Hutinski | Slovenia

„In contrast to his most recent images, which try to steal the attention of viewers with shallow, straightforward, mostly-artificial beauty, here Hutinski uses the prettiness to encourage the emotional journey, forcing us to think and re-think basic understandings of identity, personality, longing, enjoyment, phantasm, wish, love, solipsism, and relationship. “

PROEYECT | Zoltan Bekefy | …

„I have been tirelessly exploring scenes of nature near and far, trying to capture those magical moments and transform them into eternal art. Now I am devoting my passion to landscape photography. My photography focuses on grand landscapes of oceans, skies, and mountains as well as fine natural substances. My ultimate goal is to capture the true beauty of nature around us.“

GALLERY 36

Mancini Lorenzo | Mélissa | https://www.facebook.com/mancinilorenzophotography | Belgium

Serge Bouvet | Portrait of dhalit of Kathputli colony | http://sergebouvet.com/| France

Marjan Apostolovic | Abandoned | http://www.flickr.com/photos/marre4782/| Serbia

Dmitriy Orlov | The shadow of the sun | http://blue-velvet.ru | Russia

Marco Virgone | Depression | http://19564.portfolio.artlimited.net/ | Italy

Sandra Strazdaite | To listen | http://amenta.carbonmade.com/ | Lithuania

Elise Raffa | Allapattah Flats | http://www.eliseraffa.com | USA

Jignesh Chauhan | Star Dust | http://www.jchauhan.com | England

Nick Moore | Integration | http://zonephotography.co.uk | UK

Karolina Ryvolova | Shade | http://ryvolova.wix.com/portfolio | Czech republic

Jason Mitchell | Alexis 01 | http://ransommitchell.com | United States

Pedro Diaz Molins | Levitation | http://www.flickr.com/photos/piterart/ | Spain

Tijana Jovanović | Nagl | Srbija

Melissa Anderson | Water Contamination | http://melissa-anderson.com | USA

Maureen Maliha | Artifacts | www.trilliumgallery.com/maureen-maliha.html |USA

Riz Sasue | Victimize | Indonesia

Fabienne Collard | La partition de Noël | http://19477.portfolio.artlimited.net | Belgium

Jade Danielle Smith | self portrait 35mm | www.jadedaniellesmith.com | England

Vladimir Milovanović | Rope Of Madness | www.facebook.com/VladimirMilovanovicPhotography | Serbia

Mervyn Dublin | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder | Malaysia

Carmelita Iezzi | Looking over | www.carmelitaiezzi.com | Italy

Marco Iozzi | Tree and fog | http://marcoiozzi.4ormat.com/photography | Italy

Jonathan Arthur Staves | Echo Nittolitto | USA

Ioan Nicolae | Electra | www.ioannicolae.ro | Romania

Charmaine Chamberlain | The Darkness of Every Crossroad | www.exhibit07.org | Australia

Ryoma Aoki | lines | http://d.hatena.ne.jp/g-aoki | Japan

Veronika Otepková | The Room | www.veronikaotepkova.estranky.sk | Slovakia

Marianne Ellis | Lost in this world | www.excelphotography.com.au | Australia

Rafal Michalak | justine | http://rafalmichalak.com | Poland

Studio ado | Wall | www.flickr.com/photos/studio_ado| Serbia

Noe Lozano | Rose Garden | www.nolophoto.com | USA

Anemites (Luciana Rodriguez) | Dancing with the universe | www.facebook.com/Anemites.Art | Argentina

Linked Ring Photography (Dan Kennedy and Nicole Truax) | Pianist | http://linkedringphotography.com | USA

Ivan Gudić | Lucija | www.facebook.com/pages/IGudić-Photography | Croatia

Ekaterina Musatkina | Hands | http://vk.com/musatkina | Russia

Diana Yan Manan | Naked Soul | www.flickr.com/photos/dymthenaivearts | Malaysia

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Pages: 219

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robart — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:40:03 +0000

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A WORD FROM THE EDITOR

Over the last few months, the BLUR team has been working hard and probably under more pressure than ever before. On the eve our fifth anniversary, things started to get complicated really quickly. It wouldn’t be honest of me to claim it was completely unexpected; however, I did expect certain events to occur a bit further down the line. As with everything in life, the future always finds a way to creep up sooner than we think. For reasons still unknown to us (well, we’re being modest), the number of downloads of our free issues skyrocketed toward the end of 2012, putting us between a rock and a hard place. Our small server began to crash under the influx of tens of thousands of requests, reaching our bandwidth caps and resulting in frequent downtime, which is unacceptable for a digital magazine of any kind, let alone one that serves gigabytes of photo-heavy PDF downloads. We tried switching to Dropbox, but we reached bandwidth caps in mere days, and all other solutions seemed temporary at best.

Huge readership is a reason to celebrate for any magazine, and yet there we were, completely dead in the water with no finances, relying only on server space borrowed from friends to distribute free material in the midst of a financial crisis eating away at the savings and morale of most of the team. After five years, there was simply little left to give. The rest of the story you know: BLUR decided to find a rather drastic solution for this crisis; we reached out to you.
Implementing a payment system that allowed our readers to freely donate $1.00 or more to download our issues proved to be one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. Although the influx of cash was modest in these first two months, not only did it give us breathing room in terms of server resources and save us from closing down entirely, but it also gave us new wings and a much-needed morale boost. Although it’s too early to make any financial plans, as much of our readership still needs to come to terms with the new order of things, there is reason for optimism. We’ve invested as much as we can to expand, showing that we’re not here for the profit but to offer a better BLUR experience to a wider international audience as well as to grow into a bigger promotional platform for even more photographers in search of exposure.
And we’ve started immediately.

As soon as we were able, we launched a completely new, special edition called BLUR Gallery 2012, which is freely available for download from our website. Also, you might have noticed that this issue came out a month early. There’s nothing wrong with your calendar—indeed, we’re going to ramp up production to a bi-monthly cycle, churning out at least six issues in 2013. Our new issues have been redesigned and optimized for viewing on the iPad and other tablets. We’ve increased the amount of whitespace, enlarged the font, enlarged all hyperlinks and improved the navigation. We’ve expanded Gallery 24 into Gallery 36 and introduced three new editorials covering photography genres previously less prominent in BLUR. And as a cherry on top, we’re now able to afford a proper dedicated web server and are working on a brand new website that will be launched in the coming weeks, equipped with a responsive HTML theme compatible with PCs, tablets, and smartphones alike. And that’s just the beginning; we’re preparing to launch many more surprises from this upgraded platform in the coming months.
In a way, you could say that, thanks to you, we get to thank you even more—by giving you more of what we do best: great photography, more accessible, more often.
So let’s keep those shutters clicking.

Robert Gojević | founder | editor in chief

CLOSE-UP | EOLO PERFIDO | Italy

“There are different types of creative photographers. I think all the elements you mentioned are fundamental. For me personally, the people on my team are a very important factor. After all, the photography world is a bit like cinema: many different skills come together in the process and every one of them needs to be rewarded financially. The photographer is like the director, the one that has to make the whole shoot work. Knowing how to manage different resources is a key element in advertising photography. “

PROJECT | Julien Mauve & Pauline Ballet | France

“As we began imagining a mutual project, Pauline and I really wanted to create something special, which hadn’t been done before… so we decided to write about the most common theme of the universe : love.”

WET PLATE | Ed Ross | USA

„Wet plate photography is relatively difficult to do well consistently. And by “to do well” in this context, I mean to create plates with good contrast and artifact-free, or “clean.” The literature, historic and modern, is replete with “problem solving” recipes for one ailment or another. I have had my fair share of head-scratching problems. Those problems are a frustration when you are trying to work your way through to a resolution, especially when they are spoiling a shoot. But there is also satisfaction in that problem-solving process. No, I would not change a thing. .“

INSTANTION | Andrea Tonellotto | ITALY

“Surely it’s the fact that you have pastel colors, a bit in contrast with the sharpness of the digital photography so fashionable now. This gives instant photos a retro, dreamy look that fascinates me so much. It also helps to create the atmosphere I’m after in my pictures. Magic! Even now, it still amazes me when the picture develops in my hand—simply magic!”

PLAYSTICK | Erin McGuire | USA

“On The Surface is a new and ongoing body of work that explores my feelings of deception and abandonment. The recent discovery and diagnosis of a life-threatening illness for a beloved family member, along with the realization that the illness had gone unnoticed for some time, has forced me to look at my life and my work in a new way. These images of abandoned homes are digital composites made from Holga negatives to intentionally deceive the viewer. How the deception manifests itself is left to the personal history, emotions, and imagination of the individual viewing the image.”

PINHOLE | Victor Senkov | Belarus

“I mostly used medium format cameras and was never interested in pinhole photography before. When I had my Bronica stolen, I ordered a new camera.But for a month I had only an old Lubitel in my hands. I decided to make a pinhole on its base. The idea was to use it independent of the main glass waist level finder. It took about an hour to remove the glass, cut a plate from a can, and make a hole with a needle and hammer. I didn’t make any calculations. It was a pure act of creation.”

ANALOG WABI SABI | Kitamura Mika | Japan

„As I look at photographs, what comes to my mind is always the same: what is it that’s not there? What is it that the photographer chose to omit? Thinking about these things helps me to see the photographs a little bit more precisely. The next thing I consider is that we live surrounded by the enormous number of things that we did not choose, as opposed to the things that we did. How is it that we don’t see/choose them? This is exactly how we reach the point of seeing/choosing, by permission and not through refusal..“

TETRA | Yury Bird | Ukraine

„Long exposures, sharp light transitions, meditative minimalism, and a theme of loneliness – all come together in my photographic style. I don’t have any heroes in photography, but I really enjoy the masterpieces of Ansel Adams, Michael Kenna, and David Fokos. In some ways, I could call them my teachers. I prefer works in black and white, but I also work joyfully with color as well. Photography is a lifestyle, a form of self-expression, and a meditation, while at the same time it’s sorrow and gladness.“

WIDE | Deon Reynolds | USA

„Investigating and documenting the rich history of the American West has become a passion of mine. What appears to be a desolate, abandoned, corral most of the time, comes to life in the Spring when cattle are gathered and the annual ritual of sorting and branding occur. I am drawn to the stark landscape of the Great Basin where ranching still happens the old fashioned way.“

OPEN | Yurian Quintanas Nobel | Netherlands/Spain

„Every year, on the 19th of August, thousands of Orthodox, moved by faith, flock to the holy mountain of Grabarka to celebrate the Transfiguration. Many of them arrive on foot, on their knees or carry the traditional Orthodox cross for many miles as a sacrifice to God. On their arrival, the pilgrims place their crosses into the ground and start to pray. They continue their prayers throughout the night, hoping to receive health for themselves and their families and salvation for their dead ancestors.“

PROEYECT | Simon Lalia | Germany

„The last meal is a customary part of a condemned prisoner’s last day.“

GALLERY 36

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Special FREE issue of BLUR magazine!

Blur admin — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:32:45 +0000

Dear friends, year 2013 is the year of big changes which we have initiated in order to improve the quality of our magazine and make it even more interesting. Although it is still too soon to list them all, since many of those are still being implemented, and we don’t want to spoil the surprise for you, we can say that soon we will have an almost completely new BLUR magazine. After 5 years of publication, now it’s time to refresh a few things and adjust to the times we live in.

Anyway, all in good time… For now, we would like to reward our readers with a free issue, a special issue BLUR GALLERY 2012, which in one place presents the beautiful photographs we have published during 2012 in our section GALLERY 24. With this special issue we also announce large changes in this section, which will be visible in the next issue of Blur. For now we can confirm that this special free issue at the beginning of the year will become a regular feature.

BLUR GALLERY 2012

Blur admin — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:20:35 +0000

SPECIAL FREE ISSUE

Our special issue, BLUR GALLERY 2012, brings you a collection of beautiful photos published during 2012 in the section GALLERY 24. This section presents authors from all over the world who send us their best and most interesting photos, regardless of the subject and photo technique. This special issue will become a regular practice, and will remain free.

These are the authors published in BLUR GALLERY 2012:

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Magdalena | Emma Hartvig | http://emmahartvig.tumblr.com | United Kingdom
-Untitled- | Mansoor Mohamadi | Iran
Lifeguard tower | Ian Flanigan | http://www.ianflanigan.com | USA
A bit | Mindaugas Gabrenas | http://1559.portfolio.artlimited.net/ | Lithuania
Pipes | dimitri bogachuk | http://www.dimitribogachuk.500px.com/ | Ukraine
Leaving | Aninday Phani | http://www.betterphoto.com/?phani | India
the Labyrinth #1 | Pavel Titovich | http://Titovichphoto.com | Russia
Forfeit of the Three-Fourths | Allison Kortokrax | http://kortophotography.com | USA
Blind | William Condelles | http://www.thecircusofsouls.com | USA
Otro | Tamãra Lortkipanidze | http://tamaraph.com | Georgia
Kiev Antiques | Joaquin Novak-Zarate | http://terriblegiraffephotography.carbonmade.com/ | USA
Anna | Michael Smuda | Poland
Život ulice | Krešimir Pletikosa | http://www.kresimirpletikosa.com | Croatia
Abandoned doll | Yevgen Romanenko | http://www.romanenko.org | Ukraine
I’m in love | Aleksandra Kucia | http://olulka.blogspot.com/ | Poland
Cigarette? oui! | Basia Asztabska | http://www.be.net/basiaasztabska | Poland
A Baul Singer |Arindam / Shivaani | http://www.arindamshivaani.com/ | Canada
Fly | Anita Balogh | http://10804.portfolio.artlimited.net/ | Hungary
Silk | Adam Huszka | http://www.adamhuszka.com | Australia
Dreaming_II | Mertxe Alarcon | http://www.mertxealarcon.com | Spain
As i lay dying | Mark Sink | Indonesia
Reflection | Mahtab shuv | Bangladesh
Robert-Hamilton-why | Robert Hamilton | http://cecilrob.com | USA
Je suis venu te dire… | Benoit Courti | http://www.benoitcourti.net | France

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Scarlet | Alexander Kuzmin | http://www.alexander-kuzmin.com |Russia
The nun | Alan Petasecca Donati | http://www.alanpetaseccadonati.com | Italy
Muse | Aurimas Sapolas | http://asapolas.com | United Kingdom
Thin skinned- Female delicate | Adrian Celmer | http://pan-fotograf.tumblr.com | Poland
Exposed to the ghosts | Dara Scully | http://cargocollective.com/darascully | Spain
Dermography | alberola maria | http://maria-alberola.com | France
Mirror of Eternity/Closer | Neringa Rekasiute | http://hypnoticoranges.tumblr.com |United Kingdom
Tortured Soul | Christos Sewell | http://www.imagebychristos.com |USA
Morocco1 | Tony Kunz | http://www.tonykunz.com | Switzerland
Feathers | Dmitrii Chekhov | http://www.flickr.com/photos/see-it-clear/ | Russia
Me and you | Awang Mohamad Syahril | http://facebook.com/awgmohdsyahril | Malaysia
Gaby | Eric Débris | http://www.eric-debris.com | France
Sunday Morning | Ben Bernschneider | http://www.benbernschneider.com | Germany
When the night falls | Marko Nadj | Serbia
Sreeram-Nambiar-An old tribal woman | Sreeram Nambiar | India
Butcher | Glorija Lizde | http://glorijalizde.daportfolio.com | Croatia
Worship | Artashes Martirosyan | http://www.art007.com | Armenia
Spring girl | Sandra Strazdaite | http://www.wix.com/sandrastrazdaite/gallery | Lithuania
Monster | Valentina Bunic | Croatia
Embrace My Sorrow | Alen Milanovic | Croatia
Follow me | Juliána Dombrovská | http://julianaphoto.daportfolio.com/ | Slovakia
Im never come to our wedding | mukti echwantono | Indonesia
The sleepwalker | Izabela Łepek | http://izabelalepek.com/ | Poland
Illuminate | Ryoma Aoki | http://d.hatena.ne.jp/g-aoki/ | Japan

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Venus vs Mars | DDiArte | http://www.ddiarte.com | Portugal
Spring mood | Josip Vukić | Croatia
Morgana | Aurel Rapa | http://fotograful.tk | Romania
A Sadhu in Triveni Sangam | Biswadip Talukdar | http://www.flickr.com/photos/imaginebiswa/ | India
Amongst The Waves | Mark Broughton | http://www.markbroughton.net | UK
A Weightless Dream | Valerie Kasinski | http://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriekasinskiphotography/ | USA
Army of lovers | Evgeny Saukov | http://evgenysaukov.500px.com/ | Russia
Arashiyama | Aaron Brown | http://19124.portfolio.artlimited.net/?tabid=10 | Japan
Down To The Sun | Bintoro Bink | http://bink.pixu.com | Indonesia
Poppyfield | Carmen Palma | http://www.human-in-time.de | Germany
Sarra | Camille Rubiano | http://www.rubiano.biz | Switzerland
With the Wind | Chelsea Felker | http://www.flickr.com/photos/tinkerbella94/ | Canada
Charoula Stamatiadou | Charoula Stamatiadou | http://www.flickr.com/photos/sickside/ |Greece
The Waterbender | Achmad Kurniawan | http://21993.portfolio.artlimited.net/ | Indonesia
. | Lili Zaneta | http://www.facebook.com/LiliZanetaPhotography | Croatia
J’adore nature | Laura Zambelli | http://www.zambellilaura.it | Italy
Catcher | Tomasz Gulla | http://www.thomasgulla.com | Poland
Bardo | Zsolt Kote | http://zsolo.blogspot.com | Hungary
Soft mood | Sonya Khegay | http://www.sonyakhegay.com/ | Russia
Rudi Kokić | Marina Mišević | www.fotoimota.hr | Croatia
Untitled | Ivan Palis | http://21218.portfolio.artlimited.net/ | Ukraine
Mask2 | Emilia Mańk | https://www.facebook.com/EmiliaMank.fotografia | Poland
Table Lamp | Max Potega | http://www.binaryexhibit.com | USA
Maja | Rafal Michalak | http://rafalmichalak.com | Poland

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Wake me up | Sara Murk | http://www.facebook.com/sara.murk.photography |Croatia
Tangled | Monica Murgu | http://www.monicamurgu.blogspot.ro/ | Romania
Allium cepa #2 | Pietrino Di Sebastiano | http://www.disebastiano.eu | Italy
Bondage | Alina Soloviova | http://alinasoloviova.deviantart.com | Ukraine
Puzzle Like You | Bisera Stefanovic | http://biserastefanovic.com | Serbia/South Africa
The White Goddess | Neringa Rekasiute | http://hypnoticoranges.tumblr.com | United Kingdom
Lighted by the lamp | Marco Virgone | http://19564.portfolio.artlimited.net/ | Italy
Lučki radnik | Goran Hrubi | http://goranhrubi.com | Croatia
Isthmus | Frang Dushaj | http://www.frangdushaj.com | Sweden
Silent Attended | Marcello Franchin | http://www.marcellofranchin.altervista.org | Italy
Citizen of planet earth 1 | Pablo Danelutto | http://www.pablodanelutto.com | Spain
Untitled 1 | Kasia Zmokla | http://zmokla.com | Poland
Untitled portrait | Amanda Jasnowski | http://www.amandajas.com | USA
Identical Souls | Nicole M. Pagan | http://www.nicolepagan.com | Puerto Rico
Moonwalk | Yann Grancher | http://www.o-photos.com/ | France
Burning Sunset | Kuklev Nikita | Russia
Repent | Artashes Martirosyan | http://www.art007.com | Armenia
I can fly | Maja Topcagic | https://www.facebook.com/pages/Angelica-Photography/182472465104731 | Bosna i Hercegovina
Timeless Beauty | Claire Mallett | http://www.clairemallettphotography.com | USA
Sai-k-delic Party | Necrania Chnurella | http://necrania.com | Czech Republic
Untitled street in istanbul 2 | alexandru crisan | http://alexandrucrisan.daportfolio.com/ | romania
Misuse your muse | Pintea Paul Adrian | http://www.pinteapauladrian.com | Romania
Up | Marcus Mb | http://www.facebook.com/MarcusMbPhotography | Denmark
You are mine | Gracie Hagen | http://www.graciehagen.com | USA

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robart — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 18:20:51 +0000

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Greeting from the Editor-in-Chief

Dear BLUR magazine reader,

It is my pleasure to welcome you to our e-zine dedicated to creative photography.

While launching BLUR several years ago, I was guided by the idea of creating a magazine focusing only on stunning, high-impact photography regardless of photographic technique and on its creators, the photographers. My intention was to use BLUR as a response to current photographic hyper-production and through it to encourage readers to reflect more on the images and to experience photography more profoundly.

Today, I’m glad to work with an international team of editors and collaborators who voluntarily support BLUR’s mission of promoting creative photography worldwide. Together, we use the free distribution advantages of the Internet to reach readers in more than 195 countries and to present to them the inspirational work of both prominent artists as well as less-known, but very talented, photographers from around the world.

I invite you to join us and enjoy the diversity of creative photography.

Robert Gojević | founder | editor in chief

CLOSE-UP | VADIM STEIN | Ukraine

“I see photography as the process of research. I am completely open to the things happening here and now. That’s how you make the work come alive. The idea often prevents us from seeing. Subsequently, I can see similarity with the work of other photographers. It’s quite natural that everything that I observe around me appears in my work. To me, it means that I’m going in the right direction.”

PROJECT | Neil Craver | USA

” This project is meant to be consumed with your emotions, and not simply perceived with your sense organs. I wanted a transcendental meaning behind them; not only with the use of chromatics and aesthetics. But with my intended focus be on the philosophical theories, I wanted a “subliminal composition” to create an under tow of messages to stress the strong influences of unconscious elements affecting and driving people’s lives. With the creation of a strong undercurrent of incommunicable thoughts; this will be the stage for illuminating the subconscious intellect into absolute perception.”

WET PLATE | Mark Sawyer | USA

„That’s a big advantage to working in collodion positives; you can keep working on an image until it’s right. With film, you expose a negative and develop and print it later; in digital people tend to shoot a lot of images and sort through them for the best later. But in collodion, you see each photograph right after the exposure, looking very much like the finished plate. So you can change lenses, lighting, distance, composition, aperture, focus, or whatever on the next plate. Working your way through an image like that can teach you a lot about making photographs.“

INSTANTION | Bastian Kalous | Germany

“The most artistic aspect is that Polaroids develop on their own, and I immediately can see the results and how the material surprises me again and again. Especially when I take a few hours’ trip, it would be really unpleasant without this kind of photography. I try to capture the beauty on this special material, and this connection is art. It seems like the expired films take you and your photos to another world. Take a Polaroid picture and you will know what I mean!”

PLAYSTICK | Randy Jennings | USA

“I love the simplicity; there is so little control. I have to adjust my thinking, instead of shutter/aperture combinations. It takes photography back to its basic concept. Holga photos have a certain ethereal and retro quality to the images. I primarily shoot black and white and love the softness combined with the graininess and contrast.”

PINHOLE | Tony Kemplen | UK

“In today’s high tech world, the idea that I can make something cheaply and quickly from readily available materials appeals to me. Although there are a few commercially produced pinhole cameras on the market, for me the fun is in making something from scratch, and finding ways around the various technical challenges along the way.”

ANALOG WABI SABI | Reimi Adachi Corey | USA

„I think he built that connection over the years. Actually, I don’t think he had any idea what he was getting into when he first visited Japan, but soon after he became fascinated and started to appreciate the Japanese culture and the beauty of Japan, which he had never experienced in his life before being there.“

TETRA | Hengki Koentjoro | Indonesia

„I love heavy contrast with soft overtones. Normally a scene of extreme dark and bright is the one I’m looking for. On post I use Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop to convert to black and white and accentuate the mood and atmosphere.“

GALLERY 24

File size: 76.7 MB
Pages: 200

Wasn’t BLUR free to download before?

deva — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:34:42 +0000

Dear BLUR magazine fans, supporters, art lovers and photography junkies – friends:

During our long journey together, we’ve done something wonderful; we’ve created a beautiful digital magazine devoted to the art of photography. Over the years, it has grown steadily in popularity and acceptance. Your continued support, praise, criticism, and understanding have helped us build this magazine to a level of quality that is unrivaled by many much more expensive e-zines and—if we do say so ourselves—many printed magazines as well.

That’s because, like you, the editors and staff of BLUR believe that art should be accessible and hassle free. We all believe that art is its own purpose, understood by those of us who absorb each new photographic discovery eagerly and hungrily, and it’s understood by those of you who relentlessly send in photography suggestions and upload your work to be featured for the rest of us to enjoy.

We understand that art has a purpose far greater than financial benefits and far more important than sales figures. From day one, our staff has been a hard-working, devoted team of volunteers. Our editors financed many of BLUR’s recurring expenses out of their own pockets, giving what they could, even when they couldn’t. Many of our volunteer editors have come and gone over the years, depending on the time they had to spare, and our small core team managed its work as well as it could. We even changed the magazine’s release dates from monthly to quarterly to mitigate the workload and financial strain of the project. But the growth of BLUR has become too much of a burden for such a small team to bear alone, and the struggles won’t be solved by fresh volunteer blood or by spreading the work any thinner. Our donated servers are far too limited to serve the tens of thousands (and counting!) of readers who want our material, and our local team has been impacted by the financial crisis as everyone else has, some working two jobs to support their families with BLUR taking up the precious time left over.

The older issues of our magazine, when it was still known as BULB, will remain completely free. They are a part of our heritage, developed with a different team with less emphasis on quality and a somewhat different concept. We consider it a separate beast altogether—a cherished piece of our history that will remain forever available to anyone who wishes to reminisce.

As for BLUR—this is your art as much as it is ours. We respect whatever value you attach to it, and we hope you’ll understand and support this decision as much as you’ve understood and supported all the others we’ve made during the past five years. You helped us get here, and we hope you’ll help us keep the shutters clicking for many more years to come.

Thank you,

Your BLUR Team…

Our issues are again available for download

Blur admin — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:20:37 +0000

Dear readers of BLUR magazine, our issues are again available for download.
In case of excessive server load (too many downloads for our capacity), this situation might happen again.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Robert Gojević, Editor in Chief…

We are currently unable to offer BLUR magazine for download!

robart — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:27:37 +0000

Update: 10/7/2012

Dear readers of BLUR magazine, our issues are again available for download.
In case of excessive server load (too many downloads for our capacity), this situation might happen again. Thank you for your understanding.

Dear readers,

BLUR is facing another difficult period and some problems due to which we ask you for patience and understanding.
Due to an unexpectedly large number of BLUR magazine downloads, we have overloaded our server, and therefore we are currently and temporarily unable to offer any further downloads.

Although a large readership is a plus for any magazine, in our case the number of our readers in on the constant rise due to freely available high quality content, but this also poses some serious problems for us.
Since the preparation and distribution of BLUR magazine is free, and we are all volunteers, we do not have the finances required for paying for a server powerful enough for our rising needs. The oscillations in the server load are also a problem, since the period when a new issue is announced and offered for download has significantly more traffic than a month later or in the period immediately before a new issue is made available. An additional dimension of the problem is also the unpredictability of the download dynamics, which is sometimes quite surprising, like in the case of this past weekend.

Our team is doing their best in order to try to solve this new problem, at least temporarily for the beginning, in order to put the system online again.

We will keep you posted here, under the link NEWS, about the situation and any possible changes.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Robert Gojević, Editor in Chief…

Blur magazine 27

robart — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 10:00:12 +0000

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Greeting from the Editor-in-Chief

Dear BLUR magazine reader,

It is my pleasure to welcome you to our e-zine dedicated to creative photography.

While launching BLUR several years ago, I was guided by the idea of creating a magazine focusing only on stunning, high-impact photography regardless of photographic technique and on its creators, the photographers. My intention was to use BLUR as a response to current photographic hyper-production and through it to encourage readers to reflect more on the images and to experience photography more profoundly.

Today, I’m glad to work with an international team of editors and collaborators who voluntarily support BLUR’s mission of promoting creative photography worldwide. Together, we use the distribution advantages of the Internet to reach readers in more than 190 countries and to present to them the inspirational work of both prominent artists as well as less-known, but very talented, photographers from around the world.

I invite you to join us and enjoy the diversity of creative photography.

Robert Gojević | founder | editor in chief

CLOSE-UP | Tomek Jankowski | Poland

“I always wanted to create a project that would contain a part of someone’s life connected with a cycle of seasons. I guess there’s a time in every photographer’s life when he feels a need to sum up a certain period of his creative path.”

PROJECT | Gennadiy Chernomashintsev | Ukrain

“The idea for this project was simple! It was all about nostalgia. In my opinion, period between the 1920s and the 1990s was the golden era of photography; it was the time when photography was pure art. And not just for photography, but also for fashion. I tried to express this feeling of nostalgia with appearance, style, and location.”

WET PLATE | Robert Szabo | USA

„Having said that though, with a good teacher and if you can pay attention to detail, you can learn wet plate. A lot of it just takes practice. When I started, I was pouring over 50 plates a week till I got it down. Everyday, I was out in the backyard pouring and processing plates.“

INSTANTION | Phil Garcia | France

“I shoot exclusively women, first of all, because I think they are more photogenic, they have a better aesthetic knowledge of their body, and also because I like to work with women more because they bring a different vision to the photographic project than my masculine one. I’m not very directorial to my models, so I need to get them to understand the idea of the shoot and to bring their own brick to the wall.”

PLAYSTICK | Kristin L. Ware | USA

“My choice in subject matter hasn’t changed much over the years. And I rarely ever go out with the intension of shooting something specific. I just load up my camera, go out, and shoot whatever I see. Nowadays, I choose my Holga more often than not because I really like medium format and the dark corners give an image an almost haunting or ethereal quality.”

MEET THE… | Fred Baldwin & Anne Wilkes Tucker | USA

“Things change. Technology inspires action. It must have been irritating for those secluded monks who were working away creating extraordinary illustrated manuscripts to discover that Gutenberg could whip out a bible with little comparable effort. So it goes. I sympathize with their frustration, and I feel superior to those who use their Gizmophone to record the most boring things imaginable. However, there was the Abu Gareb shot. So what can I say?”

PINHOLE | Ricardo Hantzschel | Brazil/UK

“The Multiple City project was made using five different hand-made pinhole cameras. With them I wanted to portray a strange but familiar city by showing some of the most recognizable architectural sites in multiple layers, a consequence of my imagination and the multiple eyes of those five cameras, playing with the totally unexpected.”

ANALOG WABI SABI | Yoshimichi Toki | Japan

„Wabi-sabi is, for me, a similar state of mind—it’s finished (material) object emanates this feeling of one-ness and empathy, of a certain meditative quality. In photography, this means photographs that reflect the author’s attitude toward the world around her/him, attention to small details, appreciation of often neglected everyday objects and situations, or, sometimes, just a melancholic expression of a human face lost in thought. Denis Pleić“

TETRA | Pierre Pellegrini | Switzerland

„Even for me, when I am relishing that moment and the camera is recording, the picture that arises is always an unexpected surprise. When you have some experience, it’s possible to imagine how it will be, but you will never be able to foresee the final result. There are no precise rules because the variables can be unforeseeable. It’s rather gestures that one learns with the time.“

GALLERY 24

Venus vs Mars | DDiArte | http://www.ddiarte.com | Portugal

Spring mood | Josip Vukić | Croatia

Morgana | Aurel Rapa | http://fotograful.tk | Romania

A Sadhu in Triveni Sangam | Biswadip Talukdar | http://www.flickr.com/photos/imaginebiswa/ | India

Amongst The Waves | Mark Broughton | http://www.markbroughton.net | UK

A Weightless Dream | Valerie Kasinski | http://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriekasinskiphotography/ | USA

Army of lovers | Evgeny Saukov | http://evgenysaukov.500px.com/ | Russia

Arashiyama | Aaron Brown | http://19124.portfolio.artlimited.net/?tabid=10 | Japan

Down To The Sun | Bintoro Bink | http://bink.pixu.com | Indonesia

Poppyfield | Carmen Palma | http://www.human-in-time.de | Germany

Sarra | Camille Rubiano | http://www.rubiano.biz | Switzerland

With the Wind | Chelsea Felker | http://www.flickr.com/photos/tinkerbella94/ | Canada

Charoula Stamatiadou | Charoula Stamatiadou | http://www.flickr.com/photos/sickside/ |Greece

The Waterbender | Achmad Kurniawan | http://21993.portfolio.artlimited.net/ | Indonesia

. | Lili Zaneta | http://www.facebook.com/LiliZanetaPhotography | Croatia

J’adore nature | Laura Zambelli | http://www.zambellilaura.it | Italy

Catcher | Tomasz Gulla | http://www.thomasgulla.com | Poland

Bardo | Zsolt Kote | http://zsolo.blogspot.com | Hungary

Soft mood | Sonya Khegay | http://www.sonyakhegay.com/ | Russia

Rudi Kokić | Marina Mišević | www.fotoimota.hr | Croatia

Untitled | Ivan Palis | http://21218.portfolio.artlimited.net/ | Ukraine

Mask2 | Emilia Mańk | https://www.facebook.com/EmiliaMank.fotografia | Poland

Table Lamp | Max Potega | http://www.binaryexhibit.com | USA

Maja | Rafal Michalak | http://rafalmichalak.com | Poland

File size: 108 MB
Pages: 230

Facebook Blur Magazine is once again in the hands of its real admin!

robart — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:44:43 +0000

Dear friends and Blur Magazine readers, this page is once again in the hands of its real admin, founder and editor in chief of Blur Magazine.

Thanks to everyone who reported hacking this page, and thanks to Facebook for reacting and saving this page from blackmailer and from deleting.

I do hope that this situation will not happen again, and that Blur Magazine will continue its successful and undisturbed presentation of creative photography from all over the world.

Robert Gojević…

Facebook Blur Magazine page has been hacked. Please, report it!!

robart — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:45:42 +0000

My dear friends and readers of Blur Magazine.

Unfortunately, Facebook Blur Magazine page has been hacked. I am removed as admin of the page, and unknown hacker is blackmailing me with selling of Blur Magazine page.
Although I have made several reports to Facebook, they are ignoring me. I am suggested (by some friends with similar experience) to send this kind of note to all my friends, and ask them to do next:
Please, go to Facebook Blur Magazine page and report hacking of that page. Big amount of reports might resolve that Facebook admins act and take this problem more serious that they are now.

I am very grateful for every report you send.

DETAIL DIRECTIONS FOR REPORTING TO FACEBOOK

Dear friends, the most important thing is to send info about hacing my page direct to facebook, and you can do it by:
-   Go to Facebook Blur Magazine page, on the right side from “message” icon, on a wheel choose “Send Feedback”
-   Under “pick one” choose “I’m visiting page”
-   Choose option “i want to report an issue with pages”
-   And then copy/paste next text:

SUBJECT: this page is stolen from real owner

MESSAGE: My friend Robert Gojevic (http://www.facebook.com/robert.gojevic) is the real owner of FB page Blur Magazine: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Blur-Magazine/116486566463 He is Founder, Editor in chief & Art Director of www.blur-magazine.com

The page is stolen from him. Hacker who stole the page is blackmailing him and trying to sell the page.

Blur magazine 26

robart — Thu, 31 May 2012 09:35:57 +0000

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Greeting from the Editor-in-Chief

Dear BLUR magazine reader,

It is my pleasure to welcome you to our e-zine dedicated to creative photography.
While launching BLUR several years ago, I was guided by the idea of creating a magazine focusing only on stunning, high-impact photography regardless of photographic technique and on its creators, the photographers. My intention was to use BLUR as a response to current photographic hyper-production and through it to encourage readers to reflect more on the images and to experience photography more profoundly.

Today, I’m glad to work with an international team of editors and collaborators who voluntarily support BLUR’s mission of promoting creative photography worldwide. Together, we use the free distribution advantages of the Internet to reach readers in more than 190 countries and to present to them the inspirational work of both prominent artists as well as less-known, but very talented, photographers from around the world.

I invite you to join us and enjoy the diversity of creative photography.

Robert Gojević | founder | editor in chief

CLOSE-UP | Michel Lagarde | France

“… it is very hard to define my type of work because I’m combining many forms of art (design, painting), theater, photography, movies … maybe I’m a director of photography.”

PROJECT | Markus Reugels | Germany

“My favorite genre is macro photography, especially high-speed photography, where I can show the beautiful things we don’t normally see or we are not able to see them with our eyes.”

WET PLATE | Alexey Alexeev | Russia

„It became more than just a hobby or a business, and when someone asks me, “Why do you make ambrotypes?” it is like asking me why I breathe or eat.“

INSTANTION | Chloe Aftel | USA

“I love shooting people because you never know who you’re going to work with and what kind of mood s/he will be in. I love any subject matter I haven’t shot before; a challenging set-up is ideal, like 30 minutes in a cramped ugly hotel room, where I have to figure out how to make that work.”

PLAYSTICK | Ingrid Fenet Hillion | France

“I am inspired by everything I see! Scenes of everyday, and also through the Internet. I collect all of the photos I like. I often look at these photos, and they feed my inspiration again and again.”

MEET THE… | Mindaugas Kavaliauskas | Lithuania

“But, hopefully, the infinite quantities of photography will allow great works to shine among the multitude of dull ones, and ultimately, great photography will still be visible in galleries, museums, and photo festivals.”

PINHOLE | Maurício Sapata | Brazil/UK

“I love shooting on film and taking my time to photograph. In my opinion, nothing will substitute for the feeling of loading a camera and carefully composing each frame. It may sound a bit cliché nowadays, but the “hands on” process is what really excites me in photography, especially when you’re able to process your own film, and in some cases, produce your own emulsion.”

ANALOG WABI SABI | Ryoko Fukuyama | Japan

„Wabi-sabi is an aesthetic principle, a notion that finds beauty in simple, imperfect and transient, impermanent things, and has its roots deep in the Zen Buddhist tradition and the principles I already mentioned in a previous installment.“

TETRA | Ebru Sidar | Turkey

„My nature is to concentrate on only one thing at a time. This step has changed everything, including my lifestyle. I couldn’t say whether this was a spiritual improvement or not, but while taking photos, I learned that many things in life were temporary, and one can be happy not only by living but looking at something.“

GALLERY 24

File size: 77.1 MB
Pages: 213

Blur magazine 25

robart — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:58:49 +0000

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Greeting from the Editor-in-Chief

Dear BLUR magazine reader,

It is my pleasure to welcome you to our e-zine dedicated to creative photography.
While launching BLUR several years ago, I was guided by the idea of creating a magazine focusing only on stunning, high-impact photography regardless of photographic technique and on its creators, the photographers. My intention was to use BLUR as a response to current photographic hyper-production and through it to encourage readers to reflect more on the images and to experience photography more profoundly.

Today, I’m glad to work with an international team of editors and collaborators who voluntarily support BLUR’s mission of promoting creative photography worldwide. Together, we use the free distribution advantages of the Internet to reach readers in more than 190 countries and to present to them the inspirational work of both prominent artists as well as less-known, but very talented, photographers from around the world.

I invite you to join us and enjoy the diversity of creative photography.

Robert Gojević | founder | editor in chief

CLOSE-UP | Mecuro B Cotto, Russia

“In my opinion, composition and artistry is key. But as Robert Doisneau once said: “If I knew how to take a good photograph, I’d do it every time.” I think a photo can be unique by its artistic nature: specific structure, ambiguity, subject, action, etc.”

PROJECT | Laurent Baillet, France

“With the “Water Material” project, I tried to deal with a subject that’s inherently quite simple (the water, the waves, and the ocean) in a somewhat different manner. I like the idea that even if I could find the same kind of waves everywhere in the world, and even if I use a similar process, the result will always be very different.”

WET PLATE | Sebastien Kohler, Switzerlande

„I think most of the people who master a genre won’t tell you absolutely everything. What makes them masters is the experience and that’s not a secret you can tell. There will always be room for experimenting …as long as I live!
In some of the developer recipes for wet plate, some people use sugar (to slow down the process)! Now imagine how many other things you could add to experiment with the formula! Every plate is an experimentation.“

INSTANTION | Adam Goldberg, USA

“Lately, I’ve been in this sort of instant film microcosm, where from the inside it feels as though there is this great momentum welling, and that we and it will have this triumphant renaissance. Adam Goldberg”

“As he describes himself on his official website, Adam Goldberg is an American ‘actor, filmmaker, photographer, musician, Lamaze coach, and purveyor of fine meats.’ Few people could hold true to mastering every single item on that list and earn the right to be described as a modern renaissance man, but Adam is certainly one of them. There’s not a single thing on his personal skill list one could not admire, but here we take a closer look at his relationship to instant photography, as well as his recent involvement in the Polaroid renaissance. Jennifer Rumbach”

PLAYSTICK |Mery Adrian, Spain | Ute Kranz, Germany

“I love to create other worlds – impossible images. I like to create dreams. | Mery Adrian, Spain”

“I was introduced to photography in 2007 as I started traveling on my own through several remote countries. Three years later I developed my skills with analog plastic cameras to intensify the impression of world’s wild places by experimental double exposures and jazzy cross processing, which give them an absolutely unique touch | Ute Kranz, Germany.”

MEET THE… | Joanne Junga Yang, Korea

“Since the 2000s, photography has been going through a process of revolutionary changes due to the advanced digital technology. Now taking photographs is not the specialty it once was, but rather a normal part of our lifestyle. In fact, for many people it has become an integral part of their daily life. It became a socio-cultural phenomenon beyond its previous role as a medium of expression for recording or arts.”

PINHOLE | Delio Ansovini, Canada

“I design and make my own cameras, or modify vintage folding cameras. This satisfies the engineer in me and offers some certainty that the tools will work before I commit to the creative part of the process.”

ANALOG WABI SABI | Motoko Sato, Japan

„Photography is one of the ways to look inside myself. I think the photographs of scenes that moved my heart, or those that I make in an effort to become better, reflect myself at that time.“

TETRA | Red Ognita, Philippines

„There’s something in long exposures that I find appealing. One is that you can essentially capture what is not immediately visible. I find placing a length of time into a single frame very attractive. It is there, but not there. Very interesting.“

GALLERY 24

File size: 88.6 MB
Pages: 200

Announcing BLUR 25

robart — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:53:55 +0000

BLUR 25 will be online 1 March. Until then, here is a glimpse of what you can expect.

New Wave Photography

robart — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:09:35 +0000

If you’re in London on Saturday, be sure to check out the opening of a wonderful exhibition organized by our friends from United Creativity! “New Wave Photography” is opening at the Crypt Gallery, London, from 18th to 26th of February, where the atmospheric catacombs of St. Pancras Church will host 11 young photographers from 6 Eastern European countries. More info on http://www.unitedcreativity.org and in the next issue of BLUR.

Happy New Year

robart — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:21:02 +0000

Blur magazine 24

robart — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:41:24 +0000

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Greeting from the Editor-in-Chief

Dear BLUR magazine reader,

It is my pleasure to welcome you to our e-zine dedicated to creative photography.
While launching BLUR several years ago, I was guided by the idea of creating a magazine focusing only on stunning, high-impact photography—regardless of photographic technique—and on its creators, the photographers. My intention was to use BLUR as a response to current photographic hyper-production and through it to encourage readers to reflect more on the images and to experience photography more profoundly.

Today, I’m glad to work with an international team of editors and collaborators who voluntarily support BLUR’s mission of promoting creative photography worldwide. Together, we use the free distribution advantages of the Internet to reach readers in more than 190 countries and to present to them the inspirational work of both prominent artists as well as less-known, but very talented, photographers from around the world.

I invite you to join us and enjoy the diversity of creative photography.

Robert Gojević | founder | editor in chief

CLOSE-UP | Ruslan Lobanov, Ukraine

„In my photos, women look mostly as I conceive them. In most of my work, I’m trying to show that women undressed can be even more confident than women dressed. I think that clothes are not a fortress; strength should come from within.“

PROJECT | Matt Hoyle, USA

Yesterday in America is a collection that Matt Hoyle has put together over the last few years to portray a bygone era in the US. Described by Matt as his most personal series to date as it attempts to depict and reflect on the America he knew as a child growing up. “Ironically, the memories aren’t even from my personal experiences but are an amalgam of imagery from TV, movies, posters and stories that I have since romanticised were there.”

WET PLATE | Jean-Baptiste Senegas, France

„I love crafts, rummaging, getting my hands dirty. With each picture I feel that I am creating something. I become a craftsman. Throughout the development, I am like a child in front of the Christmas tree. One never knows what he will discover.“

INSTANTION | Emilie Lefellic, France

„Basically, I think anything can become fascinating when captured on Polaroid film because Polaroid film takes every subject into another dimension: that of nostalgia, of dreams, of memory – maybe of the unconscious. What you shoot on Polaroid film just doesn’t look ordinary or “real” anymore, and that’s what fascinates me.“

PLAYSTICK | Bill Vaccaro, USA

„The biggest challenge for me is not quite knowing what I’m going to capture. Because the viewfinder only gives you an approximate idea of what you’re going to get, it took me a while to figure out how to compensate for the parallax error and, also, how to get the correct focus. And, of course, each camera is different.“

PINHOLE | Patrick Caloz, Switzerland

“For me, pinhole photography is the ideal way to discover a city. I really see the city and absorb its atmosphere. What is interesting is that we are accomplices, my box and I. It only captures what does not move, everything else disappears to make room for the imagination of those who see my photos.”

ANALOG WABI SABI | Shuji Hiramatsu, Japan

„I’m an art director of graphical user interface design for computers. I sometimes direct an animation related to it. I am creating something with “bits” in a clean room (computer) in my real life. But I began to feel that I’d like to make something with real, tangible things. Before I started shooting with film, taking photos (using a digital camera) had been a way for me to collect the texture materials for computer graphics. But now, photography is more than a mere tool for me.“

TETRA | Leon Leijdekkers, The Netherlands

„Every aspect of my photography is to ensure the simplest form and, at the same time, try to achieve the greatest expression possible.“

GALLERY 24

Oh lucky day | Robert Larson | http://www.waitingforhaiti.com | USA
Misty Morning | Steven van der Hoeff | http://www.afewimages.com | The Netherlands
Tzhkas and lias | Theodoros Chliapas | http://www.tchliapas.com | Greece
At The Window | Michael Dykstra | http://michaeldykstra.com | USA
Hauntings | Vana Katančić | http://syda-ginger.deviantart.com | Croatia
Struggling With Gravity | David Mor | http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdmor/ | Israel
3129 | Jacob Madamour | http://madamour.book.fr | France
Walking into colors | Sue azmi | http://http://ithue.deviantart.com/ | Egypt
Today | Sara Rojo | http://www.sararojo.es | Spain
Decide moment | Viet Van Tran | Vietnam
Schlinder Tower | Alfonso Lazo | http://www.flickr.com/photos/alzzal/ | Spain
Paula | Gregor Laubsch | http://www.gregorlaubsch.com | Germany
Unfinished song | Alexandru Iatan | http://iaxart.ro | Romania
Waiting | Austin Craver | http://www.photoging.com | United States
Rubber lake |Johann Pourcelot | http://www.flickr.com/photos/yo_deluks/sets/72157624967840292/ | France
Koop Island Blues | Nada Maleš | http://www.flickr.com/photos/nadamales/ | Croatia
Simon | Maciek Leśniak | http://macieklesniak.com | Poland
Wild rose | Maja Topčagić | http://www.pticica.com/korisnici/angelic | Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dancer | Daniel Živatović | Croatia
Tsavo East | Jeremy Farrance | http://jeremyfarrance.daportfolio.com/ | UK
Gintas | Karolis Milasevicius | http://www.photoshoo.com | Lithuania
Village Andryushino | Vasilyeva Ekaterina | http://www.lightstalkers.org/vasilyeva-katerina | Russia
Sun-Kissed | Beci Bonkowski | Canada

File size: 85.4 MB
Pages: 183

Announcing BLUR 24

robart — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:39:42 +0000

BLUR 24 will be online 1 December. Until then, here is a glimpse of what you can expect.

ACE + IMPOSSIBLE:

robart — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:59:09 +0000

GALLERY AND CONTEST | Together with Ace Hotel, Impossible has not only created a beautiful Film Edition but also presented the superb exhibition “24 hours at Ace” presenting Impossible artworks by artists such as Adam Goldberg, Chloe Aftel, Elijah Wood, Pat Sansone and many more.

For a follow-up show in August 2012 Ace is collecting submissions of everyday and exalted Impossible images at an ever-evolving gallery at acehotel.com/impossible. Ace’s ad hoc panel of romantics and analog enthusiasts will co-curate a physical gallery show at Ace Hotel New York in fall 2012, comprised of selected shots from this community gallery.

Come check out the growing collection and pick your favorites or submit your own.

acehotel.com/impossible

Designer in Action

robart — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:46:11 +0000

Germany is discovering BLUR thanks to Designer in Action web portal. Danke Deutchland!

“25.09.2011 | Das internationale E-Magazine »BLUR« hat eine neue Ausgabe herausgebracht. Die PDF-Datei umfasst 209 Seiten mit Fotostrecken und Interviews.

Gegründet wurde das digitale Magazin 2007, um die kreative Fotografie zu fördern. Es soll gleichzeitig einen Treffpunkt für Fotografen aus aller Welt darstellen.

In unserem schnellebigen Zeitalter möchte »BLUR« das Tempo verlangsamen und die Leser ermutigen, sich mehr auf die Bilder zu konzentrieren und Fotografie intensiver zu erleben. Das Magazin erscheint quartalsweise im PDF-Format und kann kostenlos von der Website heruntergeladen werden.”

BLUR 23 is online

robart — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:45:02 +0000

New issue of BLUR is now online. Find out here what to expect in BLUR 23 and download your PDF magazine issue here

Blur newsletter

robart — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:39:12 +0000

BLUR NEWSLETTER is now available! Make sure you don’t miss any new issues of your favorite PDF magazine BLUR. Subscribe here to our newsletter and we will keep you informed.

Blur magazine 23

robart — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:07:02 +0000

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Greeting from the Editor-in-Chief

Dear BLUR magazine reader,

It is my pleasure to welcome you to our e-zine dedicated to creative photography.
While launching BLUR several years ago, I was guided by the idea of creating a magazine focusing only on stunning, high-impact photography—regardless of photographic technique—and on its creators, the photographers. My intention was to use BLUR as a response to current photographic hyper-production and through it to encourage readers to reflect more on the images and to experience photography more profoundly.

Today, I’m glad to work with an international team of editors and collaborators who voluntarily support BLUR’s mission of promoting creative photography worldwide. Together, we use the free distribution advantages of the Internet to reach readers in more than 180 countries and to present to them the inspirational work of both prominent artists as well as less-known, but very talented, photographers from around the world.

I invite you to join us and enjoy the diversity of creative photography.

Robert Gojević | founder | editor in chief

PORTFOLIO | Franjo Bahovec, Croatia

In this last installment, Photo Gallery Lang and BLUR magazine are pleased to present the intimate side of Franjo Bahovec, this unique amateur from Samobor, who, through his all-encompassing interest in the medium of photography at the beginning of the 20th century, contributed so much to Croatian photographic heritage. (…) As the fine lady in Bahovec’s photos has exposed herself in the privacy of the home, Bahovec’s photos remained practically untouched for almost a hundred years, stored solely in the emotional memory of the subject and the object.

INSTANTION | Dan Isaac Wallin, Sweden

„I’m trying to freeze a world that I feel I belong in myself, a dreamy melancholic feeling, where my mind often ends up. I return a lot to my roots, and many of my pictures are from journeys I took as a child; from the blue of Sweden, to the black and white desert landscapes of Israel. My pictures are, for me, a reflection on the human need for silence and reflection. Far away are the quick impressions and the daily stress of everyday life, leaving only our original values, roots, and tranquility. What is more elementary then the sea, the mountains, and the earth?“

INTERVIEW | Jaime Ibarra, Spain/USA

„The colors in my work are the same colors I have felt a connection with my entire life. (…) In my case, I “hear” colors, almost as if they were musical notes. Combinations of colors are like combinations of notes and become chords. And just as in music, some chords are dissonant and tense, and some chords are complex and beautiful. In my work—more or less—I just choose colors that make the nicest music together.“

PLAYSTICK | Jennifer Shaw, USA

„Nature/Nurture is really about me “blissing out” on natural wonders – bugs, plants, minutia, both living and not. It’s about looking, finding, collecting and cataloging.“

WET PLATE | Jacqueline Roberts, Germany

„Making ambrotypes is almost like a ceremony; children usually remain posed and calm, almost solemn. The set-up, the framing, the focus—it is all part of a magical process that captures children’s imagination. They seem to grasp the unique nature of collodion, and that gives a sense of occasion to the whole process.“

TETRA | Lionel Orriols, France

„My focus goes onto nature, ephemeral moments and the footprints of the human being on our nature. Long exposures associated with Black and White allow me to create timeless images, between reality and imagination. An oneiric vision, sometimes dark, it’s a wide mix of personal feelings that I try to reveal by writing with the light.“

INTERVIEW | Paolo Roversi, Italy

„I don’t care if the print is digital or analog; what disturbs me is that you can’t touch photographs anymore. I don’t like that. I don’t like images floating on the screen; they look very different from those on paper. For me, a photograph is an object that you should hold in your hand to look at.“

INTERVIEW | Sacha Goldberger, France

Mamika is the continuation of the love story Sacha always had with his 91-year-old Hungarian grandmother, Frederika (Mamika means “my little grandmother” in Hungarian). Frederika was born in Budapest 20 years before World War II. During the war, she risked her own life to courageously save the lives of 11 people. A survivor of Nazi and Communist regimes, she illegally immigrated to France, leaving behind all of her belongings. Five years ago, with the aim of cheering up his grandmother, Sacha suggested they shoot a series of unique photographs.

ANALOG WABI SABI | Nagano Toyokazu, Japan

„When I started, I was taking photos with a camera in order to keep family memories, but I now take photos to create family memories. Therefore, I do not take photos of my family’s facial expressions during everyday moments, or of their natural movements. I take photos by creating fictional scenes after setting up a certain theme in advance and then thinking about what kind of pose would be interesting.“

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Thank you Caborian

robart — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:57:16 +0000

In August most of BLUR’s readers (around 3.000) came from Spain courtesy of an article featured on the website of a photo association Caborian. Thank you! J

En agosto la mayoría de los lectores de BLUR (aproximadamente 3.000) fueron de España por cortesía de un artículo publicado en la página web de la asociación fotográfica Caborian. ¡Gracias! J

Editorial column, no.22

robart — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:23:10 +0000

Finally, the time has come for the Blur exhibition. I say “finally”, because this idea goes back 3-4 years, since the very beginnings of our magazine. I’ve bothered many people about it, but regardless of how good it sounded as an idea, things never went ahead as planned. Obviously we needed the right editorial team: Tomislav, Ivana and Tea, who turned this dream of mine into reality. They did their job by professionally organizing a big and demanding exhibition, a real treat for every true photography buff.

We named the exhibition Blur Photo 011, and it is a selection of the photos we’ve published in the past year. Recently, while talking to a person who has never read the Blur magazine I had to explain what’s so special about our photo magazine, and also about the photos at the exhibition. The question came immediately after discussing the camera I was holding in my hands, so it wasn’t difficult to follow up on the issue we just discussed.

You need the right tool for the job – as everyone who ever tried to do a demanding job can tell you.
Unlike many other professions, photography is actually in its essence not that demanding, so it’s strange how some photographers are willing to spend endless hours discussing tools. Of course, we cannot simplify and banalize the issue completely, because there are different photography tasks and processes – some are more and some less demanding.

There are no rules, but regardless of the tastes and differences, somehow today we get an impression that photography is always overshadowed by the photographic tools. Whether we speak of photo magazines or web sites, the quantity of material dedicated to tools, when compared to what is dedicated to the photographer or photographs themselves, is simply unbelievable.

In Blur, the tools are irrelevant. Here the tools are secondary, compared to the photos and photographers. We don’t really care what you used to take that photo and how the photo came to be. Our philosophy is quite simple: we provide the space for the photographer and his/her photos regardless of the tools used to produce the photo. The focus is only on the creativity. And, who would have thought it: such a simple approach was enough to make us unique, and we get so many different photos in one place. Therefore, this exhibition is interesting and different, and should be seen, even if only online .

Robert Gojević | founder | editor in chief

Blur magazine 22

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Finally, the time has come for the Blur exhibition. I say “finally”, because this idea goes back 3-4 years, since the very beginnings of our magazine. I’ve bothered many people about it, but regardless of how good it sounded as an idea, things never went ahead as planned. Obviously we needed the right editorial team: Tomislav, Ivana and Tea, who turned this dream of mine into reality. They did their job by professionally organizing a big and demanding exhibition, a real treat for every true photography buff.

We named the exhibition Blur Photo 011, and it is a selection of the photos we’ve published in the past year. Recently, while talking to a person who has never read the Blur magazine I had to explain what’s so special about our photo magazine, and also about the photos at the exhibition. The question came immediately after discussing the camera I was holding in my hands, so it wasn’t difficult to follow up on the issue we just discussed.

You need the right tool for the job – as everyone who ever tried to do a demanding job can tell you.
Unlike many other professions, photography is actually in its essence not that demanding, so it’s strange how some photographers are willing to spend endless hours discussing tools. Of course, we cannot simplify and banalize the issue completely, because there are different photography tasks and processes – some are more and some less demanding.

There are no rules, but regardless of the tastes and differences, somehow today we get an impression that photography is always overshadowed by the photographic tools. Whether we speak of photo magazines or web sites, the quantity of material dedicated to tools, when compared to what is dedicated to the photographer or photographs themselves, is simply unbelievable.

In Blur, the tools are irrelevant. Here the tools are secondary, compared to the photos and photographers. We don’t really care what you used to take that photo and how the photo came to be. Our philosophy is quite simple: we provide the space for the photographer and his/her photos regardless of the tools used to produce the photo. The focus is only on the creativity. And, who would have thought it: such a simple approach was enough to make us unique, and we get so many different photos in one place. Therefore, this exhibition is interesting and different, and should be seen, even if only online .

Robert Gojević | founder | editor in chief

PORTFOLIO | Franjo Bahovec

Whether locally or globally, the images (or more precisely stereo slides), which belong to the legacy of the member of the Samobor “bourgeoisie”, Franjo Bahovec, are simply full to the brim of life. This amateur “captures“ with almost cinematic speed the life that escapes the eye, but not the camera. The technology of the cameras of the time enables him to incorporate the dynamic of movement into his images, whether it is the gracious movement of the local female tennis player or the leisurely winter activities of the local gentry.

MEET THE… | Croatian State Archive

In the archives, photography is always a source and not an auxiliary material. It is important that the archival photography testifies about the time in which it was taken, whether by its content or by the technique it uses.

INTERVIEW | Željko Korpolčec

Working as a photojournalist, I developed my photographic expertise and got well acquainted with the environment. The creative approach, which was always my primary driver, was something one couldn’t always use in the framework of journalism. So I had to find a completely new area to be creative. The fashion industry was expanding rapidly at the time and demanded creative presentation of products. This was an interesting challenge for me, which gave me the opportunity to express myself creatively through catalogues, posters, and similar media.

PROJECT | PAG by Lapić & Uštulica

Why Pag, why not Ugljan or Pašman? What attracted you? It is magical, unreal, extraterrestrial, inspirational landscape, the atmosphere and the creations of the nature. It is really impossible to remain indifferent to the stimuli offered there.

COLUMN | Analog wabi sabi by Denis Pleić

Our friends from Japan – Fuzuki,Yu+ichiro and Miki*: they show us the beauty in this world;the world which we only too often tend to see as a hostile and dangerous place. People like our friends from Japan show us it isn’t necessarily so. In the midst of tragedy and sorrow, there is new hope, a new communal spirit, a new feeling of selflessness. A lesson for us all.

PROJECT | Bruno Mercier

In all of my photographic work, there is a certain prevailing theme which has
something to do with light, movement, and atmosphere. I do love playing with rhythms,
light, and lines. I often place landscape in the foreground, inside light, and compose space
from the running lines. A play of light and shade when light shines in darkness…darkness…

INSTANTION | Boris Zuliani

I’m fascinated with instant films because I believe they are closest to paint in many ways. They are more than a traditional film because they are unique. They also have a “soul,” delivering immediate emotion. It’s also a physical thing—you can smell and touch them. It’s really quite different.

PLAYSTICK | Pamela Klaffke

My work is very conceptual, so I’m not someone who shoots every day, and because I lean towards shooting series, it takes a while to plan the shots and gather all the props and costumes. I like to shoot as few frames as possible, so everything is very thoughtout and planned before I even load a roll of film.

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Japan

robart — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:25:34 +0000

In light of recent earthquake and the following disasters in Japan, the staff, authors and the collaborators of BLUR magazine express their sincere and heartfelt sympathies to the people of Japan. To all Japanese people and in particular to our friends from Japan whose photos we have published, or are yet to publish, we wish a speedy recovery. Our thoughts are with Japan and with the Japanese people.

Blur magazine 21

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Maybe to someone it will look a bit ridiculous when I say that we in BLUR magazine strive to be like the Enterprise crew from Star Trek. As silly as it sounds, that’s the truth. On one hand, we like the idea of presence in an infinite space, in our case the cyber world, which allows us to collaborate with authors from all parts of world and to address to readers from around 180 countries. On the other hand, the crew of this spaceship was successful because the team consisted of people of different cultures and backgrounds. Therefore, BLUR magazine entered the 2011 with a bigger, multicultural team. In addition to the already well-known colleagues from Croatia, BLUR is now collaborating with Mark Sink from the U.S., future editor of Wet Plate, Jennifer Rumbach from Germany, future editor of the Instantion, Michael McAllister from the U.S., proofreader, and Jennifer Henriksen from Canada who has been editing the Playstick section from recently.

Given the aim of focusing more on the infinite space that the Internet technology enables, from next issue BLUR magazine will be issued in English version only. At this moment Croatian independent cultural scene is in a difficult stage and our statistics show that most of the Croatian readers prefer to download the English version, which is why we, until further notice, decided to suspend the Croatian edition of BLUR. We believe how most of our loyal readers from Croatia will not feel this necessary change, while our international editorial board will get more capacity to conquer the cyber world.

PORTFOLIO | Franjo Bahovec

The second round of photos by Franjo Bahovec, the amateur from Samobor, presented in the BLUR magazine includes the photos taken mainly in Samobor, and to a lesser degree in Zagreb. All the photos were originally taken as stereophotographs. The original stereo slides on glass have been preserved in the collection of Mr. Josip Horvat in Samobor.

INTERVIEW | Frank Sirona

Are you married, because I suppose your spouse has to be full of understanding
because you are far away for weeks at a time?
I know what you mean – no, I’m not married, and I think at least photography wise it is a big advantage to be fully independent. And no one will call me crazy when I come back from a trip with one single photograph. I repeatedly have been to the U.S. with only one particular shot in my mind which could be taken only within a small window of time, usually a couple of days, since only then the light conditions are right. There are some cases where a photograph can be taken only on a single day of the year, since only then the alignment of the sun and of the rocks used as picture elements is perfect. Explain to your spouse, that for this particular photograph you need to travel thousands of miles and be away for a week or two…

PROJECT | Nacho Rojo Reclarckgable

Couples began as a simple portrait of me and my girlfriend turning into different kinds of people or social groups. At the beginning, we made 2 images and step by step, we began investigating a little bit more.

INTERVIEW | Ione Rucquoi

I find the term feminist difficult, as it is so loaded. I’m interested in the issues that cause women to be feminists. I mostly use women because I am female therefore my experiences are that of a woman. I wish to empathise, understand and relate to women’s plight, historically, culturally and the everyday.

WET PLATE INTERVIEW | Mark Sink

The most exciting was several months later with my girl friend Kristen, trying our equipment and chemistry for the first time. It was with Lauren LW a celebrated Model Mayhem traveling model that was with us. It took me some time to pour a plate well. It’s like balancing a marble ball on the glass.. and moving it around.

TETRA | Arnaud Bertrande

He shows us the world which we can see ourselves, but in a different way, softly, full of magic and mystery. With his work where he uses long exposures, he opens doors to other worlds, where he wanders freely and offers us to join him in his travels.

INSTANTION | Jennifer Rumbach

To my mind one of the greatest advantages of Polaroid photography is the fact that the technique is reduced to the absolute minimum which brings the motive and the topic right in the centre of attention.

INSTANTION | Ildiko Voros

I also am attracted to the small, “human” size of the images, a stubborn product in today’s world, where everyone wants it bigger and louder. With these Polaroids, I feel like I create a world of intimacy, imploring one to step closer and contemplate the delicate details often missed when viewing from afar.

PLAYSTICK | Gordon Stettinius

Anywhere that I suspect people are having a good time or, in some cases, a meaningful time, I believe there are pictures to be made. I don’t have to necessarily be inside of or even agree with the nature of the groups in question. It is enough that they are in it together, and I find that interesting.

KOLUMNA | Analogni Wabi-Sabi

Zen Buddhism is the origin of wabi-sabi aesthetics. Usually there are seven aesthetic principles involved, namely: kanso (simplicity), fukinsei (asymmetry or irregularity), yugen (profundity or suggestion instead of revelation), shibui (simple beauty), shizen (naturalness, unpretentiousness), datsuzoku (freedom from habit and formula) and seijaku (tranquility).

ICELAND | Mario Romulić

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Editorial column, no.21

robart — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:17:57 +0000

Maybe to someone it will look a bit ridiculous when I say that we in BLUR magazine strive to be like the Enterprise crew from Star Trek. As silly as it sounds, that’s the truth. On one hand, we like the idea of presence in an infinite space, in our case the cyber world, which allows us to collaborate with authors from all parts of world and to address to readers from around 180 countries. On the other hand, the crew of this spaceship was successful because the team consisted of people of different cultures and backgrounds. Therefore, BLUR magazine entered the 2011 with a bigger, multicultural team. In addition to the already well-known colleagues from Croatia, BLUR is now collaborating with Mark Sink from the U.S., future editor of Wet Plate, Jennifer Rumbach from Germany, future editor of the Instantion, Michael McAllister from the U.S., proofreader, and Jennifer Henriksen from Canada who has been editing the Playstick section from recently.

Given the aim of focusing more on the infinite space that the Internet technology enables, from next issue BLUR magazine will be issued in English version only. At this moment Croatian independent cultural scene is in a difficult stage and our statistics show that most of the Croatian readers prefer to download the English version, which is why we, until further notice, decided to suspend the Croatian edition of BLUR. We believe how most of our loyal readers from Croatia will not feel this necessary change, while our international editorial board will get more capacity to conquer the cyber world.

In the end, it is my pleasure to announce a great treat for all Polaroid fans; the exhibition “The Best of Polaroid photos” in photo gallery Lang in Samobor. Beside the thirty authors who won our last year’s competition, we will present the works of our Instantion editor, Jennifer Rumbach and a series of photographs ‘Famous Faces’ by Mark Sink, recorded in the 80-is, in which he captures many celebrities from the showbiz and the art world of New York.

Robert Gojević
editor in chief

Blur magazine 20

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…There is a very good reason why BLUR is read in the whole world and why some professionals think of it as the best online photo magazine. It is because our team is driven by a desire of providing high quality content from various aspects of photography, world expansion and internationalization of the editorial – with the aim to create a unique photo journal. We are proud to announce our new editor of Playstick, Jennifer Henriksen from Canada, also known as Holga Jen, a photographer and a passionate toy camera user. In addition, we are introducing a new section called Wet Plate where we will present the truly mystical and romantic works shoot with this antique photo technique. Finally, we decided to give another perspective of the world of photography which is why we interviewed Suzanne Pastor, a respected collector of photo artworks who revealed her experiences in the photography market.

Enjoy!

PORTFOLIO | Franjo Bahovec

Three years ago, Croatian photography became richer for the unique work of Franjo Bahovec which was discovered by Mr. Josip Horvat, a local collector of antiquities, and first presented to the public by an adviser of the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, Mrs. Marija Tonković.

Franjo Bahovec was a successful businessman from Samobor, a small town in Croatia, and a passionate amateur photographer. Due to his wealthy position, enabled by his job, Bahovec had the opportunity to capture different moments through stereography, at that point, in the late 19th and early 20th century, a new medium of photography. This photography technique was capturing images on glass which, when viewed through a stereoscope, resulted in an optical illusion and turned into a 3D experience.

Collection of Franjo Bahovec is truly versatile. In it, you can find cities like New York, Vienna, London, Prague, Trieste, Samobor and Zagreb, as well as stories from his intimate life such as family, sports and romantic moments. Because of its documentary and artistic value, it is indisputable the importance of this photography collection to the Croatian heritage.

MEET THE… | INTERVIEW | Suzanne Pastor

The first time I met Suzanne Pastor was in Liptovsky Mikulaš, Slovakia, many years ago; she held a workshop “Photography in the third dimension,” about transferring photography into three-dimensional objects — by means of collages, sequencing, books, video, etc.. We became friends almost instantly, spent many hours talking about photography and working together (she was my mentor). After that we met in Prague, Lodz, Paris, Zagreb; I hope we will continue to do this in many other cities. Every time we met I saw her in a different role. She is an artist in every aspect of her being, but she is also collector, curator, gallerist — with photography at the root of everything she is.

INTERVIEW | Pascal Baetens

Yes. I believe that when you are standing naked in front of a camera you are in vulnerable position. I’ve been shooting nudes for more than 20 years, and most people in front of my camera felt that way, with a lot of emotions coming up.
Once they gain trust, and realize that I respect them and listen to them, they open up and often start sharing their emotions, sometimes telling me their traumatic stories, which have been crying for years to get out.
From the start of the sessions, they feel that my interest in their personality is at least as important as my interest in their physical appearances. I want to go beyond the mask of the fake sexual availability you find in “babe” and other kinds of sexy photography. The aim is to show a real facet of them and make them go home feeling good about the session, and about themselves.

PROJECT | Tamara Dean

Ritual is a protocol, a guide, for that most fundamental of human needs: meaning.
But when protocol loses meaning, snubbed out by the distractions of life, it is merely repetition. Baptism becomes bath, marriage a party with rings. And so on the Western world ambles, away from what was once the light, out into the secular unknown.

One wonders, in this state, if bath can become baptism – if, on meditation, the mundane can take up meaning and repetition become ritual. This is the margin I seek to explore: the contemporary quest for purpose, rite in the Australian landscape.
Ritualism delves into the shared desire to understand our existence and our mortality, the purpose ritual holds in explaining moments of life, to mark them and imbue them with meaning.

WET PLATE | INTERVIEW | Igor Vasiliadis

This process existed for 100 years before the digital photography was invented. And due to very different emulsion response to spectrum, together with “some mystical vision” not available for our regular sight, this technology still has lots to say. People are tired of unnecessary details and realism of digital photography. It is always pleasure to eat with a silver spoon in the world flooded by plastic.

THE ANALOG WABI-SABI | Denis Pleić

Photography is a strange medium, and it is often said that the “camera does not lie”. Nothing could be further from the truth – and by that I don’t mean “extensive post–processing” and “doctoring” of photos, using image editing software (or advanced darkroom techniques). I mean that the camera lens (or lensless cameras, as the case may be – let’s not forget pinhole cameras….) sees the world differently than we do. Without delving too deep into biology, physics and the characteristics of human vision, let me just say that, like probably many of you, I have taken photos of things that seemed interesting and important at the time, just to be vastly disappointed when I got the photos back (that was in pre–digital era for you whippersnappers), where I had to play “where’s Waldo” in order to find the subject of my photo, which loomed so large in my mind at the time I pressed the shutter (photos of birds, anyone?).

TETRA | INTERVIEW | Hakan Strand

First of all I am a photographer, but I also love to travel.
I find it easier to work when I am alone and away from home. When you are home there are always things that you must do and take care of. When I am away on a photo trip, the only thing I have on my agenda is to take photographs. That makes it easier to focus and conce¬ntrate on my work.

INSTANTION | PORTFOLIO | Alexey Kurbatov

Alexey Kurbatov is a 24 years old self-taught photographer from Russia. Although a graduate from Technical University, Alexey dedicated himself completely to photography. His first works were for local magazines and sites, events, concerts. At one point he fell in love with analog photography and after an experimenting period and a long search for ‘his’ camera, he sta¬rted using Polaroid, Holga, Leica M6 and Pinhole camera. Alexey is not focused on creating photo series or projects; he perceives each of his photographs as a project on its own which makes it cha¬llenging for him to set up a thematic exhibition.

PLAYSTICK | PORTFOLIO | Noelle Swan Gilbert

I’ve been a photographer since the day my father gave me his argus 35 mm camera when I was 12 years old. I fell in love with photography and was rarely without a camera in my teen years. It was how I felt most comfortable, as I was fairly shy, so I used my camera as a social tool to fit in with my high school classmates by taking pictures of them for our school yearbook. By then I had graduated to a Nikon with an actual internal light meter. I spent many hours in our high school dark room and I still have a lot of of the photos I printed back then.
I started using “toy cameras” when I met Aline Smithson, a fellow toy camera photographer, who suggested I might like shooting with a Holga. So I bought a Holga at Freestyle, put it in my camera bag and took it to Seattle on the trip I take every summer with my kids to visit their cousins. I shot several rolls of film on that trip – that camera was not modified in any way, and not taped. I had no idea what I was doing. Several of images from “The Edge of Innocence” were on the last roll of film that I shot on that trip.

LOCK ME UP…AND THROW AWAY THE KEY | Tomislav Marić

The story is very interesting visually from afar: it gets quite a different dimension when you come closer, and when you surf the ‘Net a bit – quite a new perspective opens behind the forest of locks. All those locking devices are dedicated to human relationships, which are (only theoretically, of course) unbreakable. The names which are written on the locks in various ways (engraved, scratched, forged, written in plain felt pen) symbolise the pledge of love, friendship or perhaps something quite different….

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Editorial column, no.20

robart — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:17:42 +0000

Samobor is a small idyllic town near Zagreb where the only professional gallery specialized in photography in Croatia is situated. It is called photo gallery Lang. Although small in its size, the gallery is truly grand because of its expertise and contribution to Croatian photography. Moreover, many famous cultural institutions would be envious of the gallery’s rich and high quality program.

BLUR magazine has been successfully cooperating with the gallery for several years now, recognizing in it the potential and the kind of driving force that also motivates our team members. Therefore, in order to help this unique Croatian house of photography, BLUR magazine is the gallery’s official media sponsor and creator of its website www.fotogalerija-lang.com.

It is in this gallery, courtesy of its program advisor, Mr. Želimir Koščević, where BLUR magazine will organize an international exhibition of Polaroid photography entitled The Best Photo which will be staged in March 2011. On this exhibition 30 small masterpieces selected by our expert panel among several hundred photographs from all over world will be presented.

Since most of our readers around the world probably don’t know much about Samobor, I must emphasize that this is a city with rich history in photography. Fotokemika is a name surely familiar to every analogue photography fan. This worldly known manufacturer of photo films was established exactly in Samobor in 1947. Also, it was in Samobor, back in the 1924, where Tošo Dabac, a master of Croatian photography which we presented in BLUR magazine and through web site www.tosodabac.com, firstly came into contact with photography.

However, only some people know that Samobor has another great icon of Croatian photography which comes from the very end of the 19th and the early 20th century. This is a stereography photographer Franjo Bahovec; an entrepreneur, world traveler and passionate amateur photographer who, apart from very intimate photos of his wife and photos of his city Samobor, did some amazing historic shoots of large cities such as New York. This extremely interesting and valuable legacy, until today, has been presented to the public on two exhibitions in photo gallery Lang. It is our great pleasure to announce the world premiere of Franjo Bahovac’s work that we will extensively present in the following four BLUR issues.

But let’s say something more about our twentieth issue. There is a very good reason why BLUR is read in the whole world and why some professionals think of it as the best online photo magazine. It is because our team is driven by a desire of providing high quality content from various aspects of photography, world expansion and internationalization of the editorial – with the aim to create a unique photo journal. We are proud to announce our new editor of Playstick, Jennifer Henriksen from Canada, also known as Holga Jen, a photographer and a passionate toy camera user. In addition, we are introducing a new section called Wet Plate where we will present the truly mystical and romantic works shoot with this antique photo technique. Finally, we decided to give another perspective of the world of photography which is why we interviewed Suzanne Pastor, a respected collector of photo artworks who revealed her experiences in the photography market.

Enjoy!

Robert Gojević
editor in chief

Editorial column, no.19

Blur admin — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:16:18 +0000

How time flies… It has been exactly one year since we made some changes in Bulb’s editorial team, which resulted in an unexpected name change, but also introduced some novelties in the structure of our magazine.

During the whole year we have been working a lot, and in most cases the results exceeded our expectations. Although personally I never doubted the success of BLUR project, statistical indicators, which always tell more than only words, justified my trust and gave me even more confidence. So let’s see together what has been done during the last year.

We ‘legalized’ BLUR magazine by registering a non-governmental and non-profit association F.U.C.* (Photography Association CREATUS), which is the official publisher of BLUR;

In collaboration with cinema Europa we launched a successful program FULL CIRCLE (HR: PUNI KRUG) with the aim of supporting the talented semiprofessional and amateur photographers. Until now, we staged four exhibitions within the program;

In collaboration with Archive Tošo Dabac that works within Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb we created a photo exhibition Zagreb, now and then;

We organized two international and one local photo competition;

We were an exclusive media partner of the Dutch The Impossible project that brought Polaroid photography back to life;

We created a web page dedicated to the great Croatian photographer from the 20th century, Tošo Dabac, which is available in both Croatian and English;

We designed and launched the web page for the professional Croatian photo gallery Lang from Samobor;

We published four standard BLUR issues and one special edition dedicated to Polaroid. All in all, around 2500 pages;

We have been enjoying (and still are) great media attention. In the last year we had around 200 media announcements and several interviews in print media, on the radio and TV;

Finally, as the result of above mentioned actions, we registered over 450.000 page views from around 160 countries form all over the world, and 50.000 downloads of both Croatian and English versions of BLUR magazine. However, taking into consideration also other distribution channels, such as e-mail, USB etc., we believe that the actual figure is much, much larger.

Having in mind that in 2009 BLUR was recognized as one of top 40 photo magazines in the world, no doubt that now we are reaching the very top!

What is next, how to continue? Today we are much smarter and more experienced, because , besides the many successes, we also had some failures that shook us up from our somewhat immature fantasies. And despite all the challenges, we became more realistic and stronger, more confident in what we do. Our team has grown again, and we are looking forward to new success stories: we certainly do not lack any plans, wishes and ambitions.

Blur magazine 19

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How time flies… It has been exactly one year since we made some changes in Bulb’s editorial team, which resulted in an unexpected name change, but also introduced some novelties in the structure of our magazine.

INTERVIEW | Karel Vojkovský

People generally believe that people who love their body and work hard on it, like to show it off. Probably you know the best, is it difficult to find models for your photos?

Yes, it is generally true. People work hard with their bodies in different ways – this includes athletes, body-builders, gymnasts, figure skaters or dancers. Each sport forms the figure differently and the mind of the model too, of course – and it is useful to perceive these varieties. It would not be fun if it were easy to find the necessary models. This way of looking for new people is often casual and always interesting. I do really like people I meet – everybody is unique.

PROJECT | Martina Kenji

Dancing in the rain :

I was thrilled to hear about the upcoming ‘Dancing in the street festival’, the big street party in the center of Zagreb, during which the city becomes one, joined in music and dance. And thus Zagreb became a big dance floor, from Tkalčićeva, over the Ban Jelačić square, all the way to Zrinjevac and Cvjetni square. It all looked fantastic, the whole city was full, and everyone was happy and dancing. There was this beautiful positive energy and the vibes of good music from all sides. Somehow we hoped that the forecasted rain would not fall, but in the evening it started raining, and all the merry dancers got wet…. but, this is precisely when the real magic started happening… no one ran away, some did hid, but for some this was the right moment to give it their best, and show it through dance… all of us watching were fascinated and thankful for that wonderful moment and the bliss which we shared.

COLUMN | Denis Pleić

For me, the wabi–sabi aesthetic in photography is a reduction of all things extraneous, leaving us to concentrate only on the most important, a kind of zen moment, a moment of enlightenment, a kind of visual “satori”… I discovered Rinko Kawauchi only recently, and I believe she is the embodiment of this “wabi–sabi” experience of the world. The reduction to the primary (pastel) color, basic visual element, separation of important from unimportant, showing the beauty of a moment in time: sadness, longing, beauty, loneliness. Zen experience. Beauty and sadness because of its passing. Mono no aware.

TETRA | TopTen

HR1 | MARTIN IMAN | Slovakia
AUTOPORTRET | Milan Ninić | Serbia
BETWEEN THE MINDS | Andreea Chiru | Romania | http://www.andreeachiru.blogspot.com
THE TRAVELLER AGAINST THE SUN | Ralph Graef | Germany | http://graef-fotografie.de
INTRO THE DEPTH | Maximilian Baeuchle | Germany | www.dbphotographic.com
SPRING BREEZE | Aurimas Sapolas | Lithuania | http://asapolas.com
MODEL | davor trstenjak | Croatia | http://www.fotozine.org/?omen=riba_dt
* | Aurimas Sapolas | Lithuania | http://asapolas.com
AFFRESCO | Ilona Pulkstene | Latvia | www.lavlada.lv
ACHILL ISLAND | Zoltan Bekefy | Slovakia | http://www.zoltanbekefy.com

TETRA INTERVIEW | Alain Etchepare

On the photos of the project Cathares. In the memory of stones there are no people, just the landscape with the old ruins. Tell us something about Cathars and the time to which the ruins you photographed belong.

During the Middle Ages, Cathars devoted themselves to a Christian movement judged as heretic by the Catholic Church. They were grouped together in southern France (Pays d’Oc). In 1208, a crusade began against Catharism that would end with genocide, in the name of God… All these places I photographed, where Cathars tried to take refuge, witnessed this merciless cruelty.

INSTANTION | Mike Hoban

The vagiaries of polaroid are never more apparant than images created through the SX-70. When I shot my first SX-70 films in Florence I knew ‘instantly’ that this was the future of my photography, even though the camera failed after only 4 sheets. Shooting Polaroid requires me to think about planning and achieving, but without the assurance that it will actutally happen and that is very exciting. Having taken the shot, I am forced to rely on the ecentric mechanics of a 40-year old camera spitting out an equally ecentric cocktail of paper and chemicals .… it’s a total lottery, and I love it. More and more I find myself shooting the Pola, putting it away immediately, before it has even processed, and not looking at it many hours later, by which time it is far too late to re-shoot. It is all part of placing your trust in something that is totally out of your control, and adds the the sense of anticipation that cannot be replicated in any other form of photography.

PLAYSTICK | Goran Popović

He was not one of the attendants of Hoyka’s photo academy

Last year he volunteered in building the elementary school in Nepal, he taught English to the future Tibetan monks in a temple in Tibet. In June he takes off for New York, to work on the NYFD project – documentary photography of the lives of the New York firefighters. For that project he has personally designed and made business cards which are burned. “Making of” can be seen at the following link:

In July he will be on the expedition in the far away Indonesia, he will photograph dragons on the Komodo island, cannibals on Papua New Guinea, tribes on Borneo… In 90 % of the cases he uses only cheap plastic cameras. He adores the Polaroids. Currently working as a photographer for Disney Cruise Line.

FULL CIRCLE | Biserko Ferček | Maja Jokić

FULL CIRCLE is a program of round support of Croatian photographers which was created by BLUR magazine with the support of cinema Europa. The aim of project is to present Croatian photographers who are known for their quality work, but who we believe are not sufficiently represented in the public. We offer these authors a free exhibition in the very center of Zagreb in order to stimulate development of local photography and cultural scene.

EXHIBITION | Zagreb, nekada i sada

In Zagreb, between 15th and 26th of July in Archive Tošo Dabac, BLUR magazine staged an exhibition Zagreb, now and then, organized in collaboration with ATD which works within Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb.

At the exhibition, 20 works, selected through an official competition, presented locations of Zagreb in their actual context with the aim to answer the question ‘how does Zagreb look like now, 80 years after being captured by the great Croatian photographer Tošo Dabac in his series Zagreb in the thirties?’. The chosen photographs were placed just opposite of the Dabac’s works from the above mentioned collection. The opening attracted many visitors, and thanks to the main sponsor of the exhibition, Borovac & Bence, seven authors, whose works were selected as photos of the week during the competition, were awarded with printed photographs.

REPORT | Aktualno 2+60

“Aktualno” developed into a project in 2008 as a selection and exhibition of the best recent photographs by eminent photographers/members of the ULUPUH Photography Section to a set and contemporary theme. The aim of the exhibition is to present a portrayal, interpretation and vision of modern life as seen through the eyes of the artist-photographer. The first AKTUALNO presented over seventy artworks by thirty members and after its successful presentation in Zagreb and hosting in Rovinj, it was decided that it should become a biennial exhibition (an ULUPUH Photo Biennale), not only of recent photography produced by members of ULUPUH, but also of the best accomplishments in art photography in Croatia.

PRIZE GIVEAWAY | Past in Present – Lubenice – Željko Jelenski

BLUR magazine is celebrating one year since it changed its name. And what kind of birthday would this be without any gifts? Since you have been our loyal readers during this whole time, the moment has come now for us to award you!

Therefore we prepared a wonderful monograph by Željko Jelenski, an eminent Croatian photographer, called Past in Present – Lubenice. Through 111 photographs of the highest artistic and graphical quality, Jelenski captures natural beauty and romantic fairytales that are hidden in the small, picturesque town Lubenice on the island Cres, one of 1244 Croatian islands. Allow yourself to be carried away, through these photographs, to the mystical place ‘where past and present, fantasy and reality, dreams and downcast interweave’.

BLUR 19 GALERIJA 24 · Robert Gojević

Croatia | http://photo.net/photos/_NeveN | Neven Jurkovic The world makes a path for people who follow the Sun lan
Germany | http://www.boundlessmind.net | Sven Fennema the old winery
Italy | http://www.flickr.com/photos/aurorademasi | Aurora Demasi | Lovers
USA | http://sothy-eng.com | Sothy Eng | The Truck
India | http://www.flickr.com/photos/lakshmi | Lakshmi Prahaka | Gods and mere mortal
Italy | ugo frosi | the Passengers
USA | http://www.freelandphotography.net | Chris Freeland | Robbers Roost Tree
Croatia | http://kozjakphoto.blogspot.com/ | Boris Kozjak | Interakcija
USA | http://albertobevacqua.com | Alberto Bevacqua | Velocity
Romania | http://www.ioannicolae.ro | Ioan Nicolae | Star Dust
Serbia | Mladen Jordanov | Ni jedan dan života
France | http://www.laurentmiaille.com | Laurent Miaille | The Lonesome fisherman
India | http://www.flickr.com/photos/arindam_thokder/ | Arindam Thokder | The Lepcha Family
Croatia | http://www.gralpix.com | Srđan Graovac | Turban Cola
Croatia | http://denis.pleic.com/ | Denis Pleić | V´s back
Croatia | Ddinko Neskulis | Igra
Germany | http://www.bicolored.eu | Uwe Baeuchle | trees #VII
USA | http://www.cmoodyphoto.com | Christopher Moody | Hatch
USA | http://www.schaharazad.carbonmade.com | Sarah Rose Smiley | weathered, down
Iran | Salar Salari | Silent Party
Russia | http://juriyronzhin.portfolio.artlimited.net/ | Juriy Ronzhin | If
Wales | http://www.benmillarcole.com | Ben Millar CoLE | Pierre
Australia | http://paulvankan.com | Paul van Kan| Tom Woodward
Lithuania/Estonia/USA | http://www.martynas.org | Martynas Milkevicius | Dead Horse Mill

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Editorial column, no.18

Blur admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:16:16 +0000

Probably until now I have never starred so long into the screen, trying to write editor’s word. I thought of many different opening lines, however, nothing sounded suitable. Some close friends would say that I became a bit numb after becoming a dad again, because all these sleepless nights and sudden change of lifestyle left a big impact on me . Luckily, a good organization and many interesting photographs and projects that we received enabled putting together of this issue much faster then usually. We even have a lot of materials ready for the next issue. I am especially delighted with this because it meant no stress and last minute actions, which left us enough time to upgrade some things to a higher level. Still, regardless how good planner you are, there are always some unexpected rules of nature that influence the editorial and which can always destabilize a bit something that is patiently being built. Therefore, some actions that we undertake may seem as an analog photographing where you never know what the end result will be like.

I would like to thank specially to the readers that write to us and send us their comments, so I find it necessary to give them some answers to the two questions we most commonly receive in our editorial. The first one is when BLUR will be published in print version? Never say never would be a good diplomatic answer to this question . Still, I must admit how I was never overwhelmed with this idea since it would imply many compromises which would change BLUR into something completely different. Therefore, we continue with the same tempo and system, and time will tell if we need to do something else. My vision concerning BLUR was in line with development of technology and current economical situation, when print is no longer sustainable. Not to mention the ecological benefits of an online magazine. So, an online magazine and photo exhibitions, a good ratio of virtual and reality is our strategy we stick to also in the near future.

Other most frequent question was connected to transformation of old Bulb issues into pdf format. Due to limited team capacity, we are in no possibility to invest additional efforts into this action. However, we thought how an interesting compromising solution could be to establish a section Reprise in which we would publish some authors from previous Bulb issues, but refreshed with more and/or new photos. The first Reprise is available in this issue when you have the opportunity to see an interview with Denis Gržetić and portfolio of Tatjane Krstić. Enjoy.

Blur magazine 18

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I am especially delighted with this because it meant no stress and last minute actions, which left us enough time to upgrade some things to a higher level. Still, regardless how good planner you are, there are always some unexpected rules of nature that influence the editorial and which can always destabilize a bit something that is patiently being built. Therefore, some actions that we undertake may seem as an analog photographing where you never know what the end result will be like.

INTERVIEW | Manuel Libres Librodo

The eyes are the window to the soul. Since I want to connect to my subjects and eventually my viewer, I want them to explore beyond the facade of the face. The eyes allow the viewer to have a peek into the inner character of the person, to fathom the sensibilities and intricacies of the human spirit.

PROJECT | Tomislav Šmider

As there are probably well over a million photos of the Antelope Canyon, my goal was to constantly look at the motifs in a new way and constantly note light changing.

PROJECT | Tea Gabud

There we are, a dozen of us, gathered together to kill some chicken. I came just to observe and take photos, but still, I was quite involved. The atmosphere was cheerful, no doubt. The neighbours living close by came to help. It was an early morning, gray and dull. The “killing crew“ started with coffee and breakfast.

INTERVIEW | Sandra Vitaljić

I found it interesting to compare places which were monumentalized (like Jasenovac or Donja Gradina) to the Way of Cross which took the toll of so many lives. While mass grave sites were turned into monuments and have an air of peace and tranquility, the roads leading to them are still restless, filthy and full of horror. I hope all mass tombs will be explored and that the victims will find their peace. I also hope that the manipulations with the actual victim count finally stops – with all conflicting parties.

MINI PROJECT | Biserko Ferček

For a couple of minutes, smile was glued to my face and the first thought to hit me after the initial shock had faded was: “These guys made a time machine!”

PORTFOLIO | Ella Sverdlov – Keren

I’m a person that like to see fast results, sometimes I even don’t have patience. I prefer to make food, that doesn’t take too much time, but good quality.

The instant photography meets the needs of me. I love the quality of the print, the colors and the nostalgic look. But my favorite part in instant photography is the 3 minutes it takes to develop, I love the waiting, the changes it goes trough, this is the peak moment for me. Off course I can’t ignore the fact that it is sweet and sexy.

Polaroid takes me back to the classic painting, because of the colors but also because it is one of a kind, not like a film that you can make copies, Polaroid naturally is a one limited edition.

TETRA | INTERVIEW | Max Katsen

I like to travel about the country a lot, I like to meet new people, to see new places. My wife and me, we go to a new place almost every weekend. It does not matter whether it is an old fortress, park, desert, sea.

Almost always, when I see some interesting place my imagination creates images that could complement this picture.

PLAYSTICK PORTFOLIO | Jennifer Henriksen

In her self portrait work, Jennifer expresses her deepest emotions and dreams by striving to create unique perceptions of her inner self. A lot of her images are created by experimenting with techniques, such as long exposures, motion blur, film grain and other in camera manipulations.

REPRISE PORTFOLIO | INTERVIEW | Denis Gržetić

In the beginning, I was mostly inspired by photographs from “Life” magazine (unfortunately it stopped being published a long time ago), and surely my inspiration were H. C. Bresson. I also enjoyed film photography.

REPRISE PORTFOLIO | Tatjana Krstić

Only with open heart you can take pictures of people and animals, simply jump into their being, literally draw your camera into their faces, jump into their auras with your wide angle lens, capturing a moment where you have met them for the first time in your life.

Each portrait is a world to itself, and there is just one universal rule that gives you freedom to feel it – honesty and love towards people. Simple smile. Kind word.

Taking pictures of people and animals is communicating with your heart. If there’s no this heart-feeling you will not find this sparkling life force. People can feel it. You can’t lie to them.

FULL CIRCLE | Jelena Balić | David Mihoci

FULL CIRCLE is a program of round support of Croatian photographers which was created by BLUR magazine with the support of cinema Europa. The aim of project is to present Croatian photographers which are known for their quality work, but which we believe are not sufficiently represented in the public. We offer these authors a free exhibition in the very center of Zagreb in order to stimulate development of local photography and cultural scene.

BLUR 18 GALLERY 24 · Robert Gojević

Corner Cafe Paris ’64 | Roger W. Beverage | USA
The Night Train | Ivan Kršić | Croatia | http://www.ivankrsic.com
Li | Ingolf Schwarz | Germany
Stari kameleon | Matej Grgić | Croatia | http://www.fotozine.org/index.php?omen=mogwai
Opening Sky | Armand Belakow | Latvia | http://www.squarepicture.net
Hardcore Chair for a Hardcore Place | Chris Jones | USA | www.paradoxgraphics.net
Deco | Amy Jensen | USA | http://thedizzydame.blogspot.com
Prism of life | Vitaliy&Elena Vasilieva | Ukraine
Something We Were Withholding | Brian Wasser | USA | http://ghostfield.deviantart.com
G. | Gregor Laubsch | Germany | http://www.gregorlaubsch.com
what Vercoutter said was true | Buke Serifoglu | Turkey | http://barcarola.deviantart.com
Sanctuary | Tom Everaerts | Belgium | http://dubbel2.deviantart.com/
Dysphasie | Dorothy-Shoes | France | http://www.dorothy-shoes.com/english/portfolio
Playtime | Deborah Parkin | UK | http://deborahparkin.com
A Presidential Figure | Chad Coombs | Canada | http://www.chadcoombs.com
Professionals 2 & 3 | Murat Sayginer | Turkey | http://www.muratsayginer.com
The Voice | Calisto | Switzerland | http://www.calistonet.ch
Stari Most | Mario Radaković | Croatia | www.facebook.com/pages/Mario-Radakovic
Innocence | Aleci | Belgium | http://www.portraitcreative.com
Behind | Marco Pandullo | Italy | http://www.marcopandullo.com
Spring out | Deyan Stefanov | Bulgaria | http://deyanstefanov.blogspot.com/
Kanal | Saša Perić | Croatia | http://www.trekearth.com/members/toronaga/
Curious Logger | Jerod H Opsal | USA | http://www.jerodopsal.com
Storm Night | Dario Matić | Croatia | http://www.fotozine.org/index.php?omen=Double

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POLAROID Special Edition

Blur admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:30:21 +0000

Polaroid was invented as an attempt of simplification of the process reserved only for the masters of the dark room, and although it had a great ambition to become a serious competitor of the classical photo development, it never achieved it. Still, Polaroid gained big popularity and many users and fans. It announced something in which later digital photography succeeded, which are practicality and mass and simple usage. Due to its imperfections, Polaroid photography never seriously endangered analogue one, but it is because of them that it was always perceived as artistic. This is also the reason why Polaroid company, through its history, very often hired artists and professional photographers in its campaigns.

However, the circumstances have drastically changed with the introduction of digital photography, which caused a revolution by enabling photographical expression to all users regardless of their previous knowledge and education concerning photography. The photo industry experienced a real boom, while instant analogue photography, because of its inability to respond new market needs, disappeared. In June 2008, Polaroid company globally stopped the production of instant film by shutting down its factories in Mexico and the Netherlands. This moment was followed by numerous demonstrations and disapprovals of nostalgic Polaroid users all over the world, which motivated Impossible B.V. to start up an ‘impossible’ mission of saving Polaroid photography. Today, 22 of March is a great day for artistic and photography scene, as it is the day when The Impossible Project, after facing many challenges and troubles, became possible and successfully launched their new instant films compatible to the old Polaroid cameras.

In order to celebrate this great moment, BLUR magazine created a real Polaroid treat – a special edition in which all details about the ‘freshly’ produced films will be revealed, where we will show test photographs shoot on the new films, but also present a new section INSTATATION through which we will be presenting work of many Polaroid photographers, and which will, we believe, become a ‘must see’ for all instant film lovers.

Within this special issue, we have also presented some more intimate photographs since Polaroid was know, to many, as an ideal method of shooting small personal home photos. This safe system, through which it was hard to make uncontrollable and unwanted copies, enabled more relaxed photo shooting. To the ladies, it offered a guarantee of privacy in order to get rid of their extra clothes, and its imperfections enabled safe hiding of their identity. Although, probably, not so many of these photos will be sent to our redaction, we still keep our fingers crossed. In the meanwhile, with the aim to encourage those who possess this kind of photos, we have published two Italian masters of Polaroid erotic.

At the end, in order to conclude this great Polaroid story, in December 2009 BLUR started up a big international photo competition entitled The Best Polaroid Photo. Of course, the intention of the competition was never to gather all ever best made Polaroids, since due to the logistical reasons it would be quite impossible. Instead, it offered a quite subjective approach and experience of these works. There were no strict criteria and guidelines upon which exactly these 30 photos were selected by the jury, as we were ruling based on our personal preferences, the same we asked you to do. Beside the jury, the final decision was up to you so that you could also, in this way, participate in this historical moment.

We would like to thank al participants of the competition and voter for their supports, as well as congratulate all finalists and winners.

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Editorial column, no.17

Blur admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:05:32 +0000

In times when the crisis impacts all social levels and rarely leaves anyone unafflicted, BLUR magazine boldly goes forward. We decided to increase the number of pages, introduce more optimism, celebrate beauty and creativity and to deliver all of this to your home free of charge, no matter in which part of the world you live in. It only takes scrolling your mouse three times, clicking, and there we are .

We decided to talk less; i.e. to publish the textual content in an ideal amount, suitable for screen reading, and to provide more visual experience, while bringing more diversity by reserving space for different photographic styles and techniques.

And while many are still surprised about BLUR being a free-of-charge magazine, we opted for another ‘costless’ program created for Croatian photographers entitled FULL CIRCLE. It involves a process of selecting a few authors whose work continuously attracts our attention and which we believe should receive more media attention. Through this project, BLUR yet again opposes the phrase stating ‘nothing in life is free’ and proves that ambition, good work and quality will always be recognized and awarded. In collaboration with our partners, Cinema Europe, Prizma, PlanB, Borovac & Bence and the web portal fotografija.hr, selected photographers will enjoy completely free exhibitions of their work in the very centre of Zagreb! The first author to be exhibited as soon as middle of March is Jelena Balić, a young but very talented photographer originally from Split. Besides free exhibiting space provided by cinema Europe, Borovac & Bence ensured the best prices of printing and cassation, while these costs will be fully covered by Prizma, distributor of photo equipment. However, in order to ensure full and complete support, it is necessary to achieve media attention. Therefore, PlanB will feature selected authors by presenting them through a monthly interview plus photos basis, while photo web portal fotografija.hr will create a section FULL CIRCLE. In addition, BLUR magazine will carry out detailed reports from all exhibitions.

Furthermore, we published the first website dedicated to the master of Croatian photography, Tošo Dabac, in Croatian and English version, and set up the first online web photo gallery dedicated to artistic photographs of Zagreb entitled ZGB ART.

As the main media sponsor of a specialized photo gallery in Croatia, Lang Gallery in Samobor, we enabled the free construction of their official website.

Besides BLUR magazine becoming a main media sponsor of Lomography Croatia, it will provide media support for the European project Urbanautica that will organize exhibitions all over Europe during 2011. We hope that they will make a stop in our territory as well.

As a proud exclusive media sponsor of the Impossible Project, we are impatiently waiting for 22 March when the first new instant films will be officially launched. This gave us a reason to issue a special BLUR magazine edition dedicated to the event and Polaroid photography in general.

This year began with many new projects and interesting collaborations. We are pleased that, despite the difficult times, we can still find reliable partners who appreciate and recognize high-quality photography. Having them around, it is easy to have an optimistic view of the future.

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In times when the crisis impacts all social levels and rarely leaves anyone unafflicted, BLUR magazine boldly goes forward. We decided to increase the number of pages, introduce more optimism, celebrate beauty and creativity and to deliver all of this to your home free of charge, no matter in which part of the world you live in. It only takes scrolling your mouse three times, clicking, and there we are . We decided to talk less; i.e. to publish the textual content in an ideal amount, suitable for screen reading, and to provide more visual experience, while bringing more diversity by reserving space for different photographic styles and techniques.

INTERVIEW | Phillippe Marchand · Robert Gojevic

“I am very flattered to publish a portfolio in Blur, it’s a magazine who is genui¬nely interested by the author. Open to new talents without discrimination. I think your questions to the authors are often very releva¬nt you really take time to analyse photographer’s work before, this is not the case with all magazines where issues are often formatted.” I wish a long life to Blur-Magazine.

PROJECT | The Dust | Olivier Valsecchi · Robert Gojević

The Dust series is a mix of birth and death alto¬gether where time doesn’t exist, or is redefined as a non continuous cycle. It’s like I have created a human cocoon and opened it to see what was inside. Each photo is a representation of this metamorphosis process. It was inspired by Ovid’s definition of Chaos, who describes it as the confused mass (light and darkness, order and disorder, liquid and fog) that exploded to give birth to the elements that it contained.

PROJECT | Before me · Jelena Blagović

In the photographic series Before Me, I question my own identity in relationship to my mother, by looking through very palpable material items – her love letters. I believe that reading others’ love letters is equivalent to a dose of uncivilized and voyeuristic behavior. But I also have feelings that arise from the expectations, the diverse texture of the letters, the smell of old things and the worn-out paper on which they were written. I am also fascinated by the fact they have been kept all these years.

PROJECT | Zulu · Milan Josipović

The Zulu project came to life pretty much by accident in South Africa. In between two fashion shoots I took part in a performance by a group of young Zulu men and women, and was immediately impressed by their appearance and movement. After lengthy negotiation they agreed to be photographed for three days on different locations around Cape Town. And I had to pay them for their trouble as well. Nothing too much: 500 € for everyone. It was none the less a joy spending time with them and photographing them during those three days. I’ve grown attached to some of them. I used only one reflector (bounce) and relied solely on daylight. I find this to be an ideal way to conduct such shootings.

PORTFOLIO | Xavier Ray

Eclectic in nature, I work all photographic style. My love for the sea and waterscape photography in B & W, guide my work to a photographic style format where the square and the long exposure became two obvious. I love working in this format, fitting length to give landscapes photographed another reality, another view … mine. Photography b & w is my primary mode of expression and allows me to fully express my vision of the author. Sometimes I also do color, but it remains quite rarely. Beside this, I also work on other personal projects such as portrait or report. My photographic approach is something insti¬nctive, as an impulse that prompts me to press the trigger at a specific time to pick a place, atmosphere, people … I love photographing in the moment, discover a place and I try to appropriate it.

PORTFOLIO | Romeo Starčević

If we disregard hunters and poachers (I’m convinced there are not many of the latter), people in Africa have a special relationship with animals, a relationship we find peculiar. One early morning, while I was driving in search of lions, we came across a lost gnu youngling, roaming helplessly outside of the Massai Mare national park. In compassion, I recommended we catch it and lead it to the nearest herd, because I once learned that gnus take care of stray younglings that don’t belong to them, but the guide I was with refused and explained to me that this lost gnu has been predestined to become food for someone and that we cannot play god, cha¬nging the course of nature to our whim.

PORTFOLIO | Olivier De Rycke

Once I saw in a magazine holga pictures and fell in love with the process right away. When I found where to buy this toy camera, I started to shoot everything that appealed to me. The splashing colors due to light leaks revealed to me a world at the edge of reality, a world like we see in our dreams. Shooting with the holga camera turned quickly to be a joyful research that moves you away from the dull reality. Just like a therapy would bring you to a better life. Hence came the title of this work : TherapyH, where the H stands for Holga!

BLUR 17 GALERIJA 24 · Robert Gojević

01 | Twins “Roos & Mare” | Kees Muizelaar | The Netherlands | http://www.keesmuizelaar.com
02 | For the boy of summer | Milica | Srbija | http://www.flickr.com/photos/lady_lush
03 | Brodica | Marin Dražančić | Croatia | http://marindrazancic.carbonmade.com
04 | ZigZag | Tarek Fakhry | France | http://www.tarekfakhry.com
05 | Like Brigitte Bardot | Tomasz Gulla | Poland | http://www.fotoblog.printpol.pl
06 | Grimms’ Story | Dan Lavric | Romania | http://danlavric.com
07 | Deian | bea de giacomo | italy | http://www.beadegiacomo.com
08 | Rise of the Future | Mladen Božičković | Croatia | www.fotke.hr
09 | panties & boxers | Marcus Manoogian | USA | www.mrmanoog.com
10 | detrasdelosmetros | fabio borquez | Germany | http://fabioborquez.com
11 | My Way | Popovic Goran | Serbia
12 | HR | Boris Perković | Croatia | http://borisperkovic.com
13 | I Was Falling High | Martin Stranka | Czech Republic | http://www.martinstranka.com
14 | Glove William Castellana | United States | http://www.williamcastellanaphoto.com
15 | Haunted | Dario Matić | Croatia | http://www.fotozine.org/index.php?omen=Double
16 | finally free | Nataša Malinić | BiH
17 | Man with no country | Patrizia Burra | Italy | http://www.photo.patriziaburra.com
18 | Dog | Jocelen Janon | New Zealand | http://www.gotya.co.nz
19 | The sleep of the Universe | Alexandra Jitariuc | Romania | http://crushedsilence.deviantart.com
20 | Daske i konop | Ivan Čorić | Croatia | http://ivan-c.deviantart.com
21 | The Tourist | Samuel Moulin | France | http://www.samuel-moulin.fr
22 | The Locksmith, By Code | Rick Majewski | USA | http://www.roguecamera.com
23 | Newborn | Maciej Leszczynski | Poland | http://maciej-leszczynski.pl
24 | Breeze | Roman Aytmurzin | Russia | http://www.aytmurzin.com

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Polaroid photo voting

Blur admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:11:29 +0000

The Best Polaroid Photo – it is time for you to choose!

Last month an international competition of a Polaroid photos finished. It was organized by BLUR magazine in cooperation with The Impossible Project, to mark a great come back of instant film. Contest theme was open; we asked you to send us your favorite photo, the one you believed could win the title The Best Polaroid Photo.

The response was excellent – we received over 500 entries that came from all over the world! Official panel, composed of members of BLUR magazine and The Impossible Project, selected the best 30 photographs which will be exhibited in Zagreb and presented in a special BLUR magazine edition dedicated to Polaroid.

Additionally, we decided to award top 5 photographers with:

prize: Polaroid camera SX-70 Sonar OneStep + 2 packs of newly produced Instant film
prize: Polaroid 600 Once Classic camera + 2 packs of newly produced Instant film
prize: 3 packs of newly produced Instant film
and 5. prize: 2 x The Impossible Project T-Shirt (M or F)

Now it is up to you to choose The Best Polaroid Photo and to decide which authors will be awarded with these attractive prizes. All you need to do is to go to THE BEST POLAROID PHOTO take a look on all photos and place your votes.

End of March, within special edition of BLUR magazine dedicated to Polaroid, we will announce the happy winners and awarded photographs.

We would like to congratulate all selected photographers and thank everybody for participating!

VOTE HERE!

CONTEST TIMELINE | THE BEST POLAROID PHOTO

01.12.2009. – Official start of the contest
10.02.2010. – Photo submission deadline
20.02.2010. – Panel decision
01.03.2010. – Publication of the best 30 photographs on Blur web page. Start of the voting process of the readers 20.03.2010. – Closing of voting process of the readers
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Blur magazine 16

Blur admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:15:11 +0000

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Recognitions and praises were unselfishly coming from different parts of the world, so besides being placed among 40 biggest and best online photo magazines in the world, BLUR magazine very soon became the exclusive media sponsor of The Impossible Project. This international collaboration granted us with the best possible birthday gift – organization of a big analogue photography exhibition entitled THE BEST POLAROID PHOTO. Apart from including the biggest ‘shoots’ of The Impossible Project into the contest, we will provide some really attractive prizes that will highlight, in the best way, the rebirth of instant analogue photography art.

INTERVIEW | Claude Tenot · Robert Gojevic

The first thing we noticed when browsing through your gallery is that there are no photographs of a male model. Could tell us your reasons for that?

With a female model it’s easier for me to build a story, to create that timeless mood which is the signature of my photos. What I like above all is to celebrate grace and femininity. Each photo session is just like a caressing brush, a succession of vibrations, a musical score. It’s often difficult for me to find the right sounds with a male model. In my everyday work, men also meet the focus of my camera, but those are generally speaking rather classical pictures, used for curriculum-vitae, press or working files.

PORTFOLIO | Portraits of Dreams | Mario Leko · Robert Gojević

I would like to be a silent observer but my presence is so loud and still not enough, I need people, friends, lovers: I want them to be part of my ideas, ideas that I have about them. I want to shut down “life” for a moment; I`m not trying to document the reality, I`m trying to document an illusion or, paradoxically – “a feeling”; the other rather rarely shows up on negatives because it depends on what cannot be captured, and what forces me to be the hunter.

COLUMN | Polaroid branding · Ivan Zidar

Paul Giambarba is a famous and indeed a very interesting name in the world of design and product branding. When I started exploring his work, I contacted him via e-mail and, by coincidence, on his 81st birthday. Moreover, he revealed some more interesting things. His daughter-in-law, and therefore his grandchildren, have Croatian origins, while the Giambarbas come from a small town near Termoli in Italy. Our correspondence turned out to be very interesting and inspirational, which made me suggest that we show overview of his Polaroid related work that he explained in details on his blog. He even let me use photographs of his design work.

COLUMN | Polaroid in Female Hands · Isidora Vujosevic

Polaroids provoke special feelings in people while looking at them. And what are women without emotions? They are fish without water. So we asked Fernanda what kind of emotions she tries to provoke.

- I am interested in telling stories and expressing myself through visuals. Polaroid and its dreamy, blurred quality is the perfect means for me to do that. Intense and intimate, I cannot think of a better way to communicate my feelings than to let these precious little squares do the talking… –this Uruguay-British artist says.

COLUMN | It is time for a new beginning · Damir Sirola

Why do we love children’s drawings? I would compare most Polaroids exactly with children’s drawings, containing a component of fantasy that kids ‘squeeze’ into reality and consider this to be normal, the same fantasy that usually limits photographic media. Each photographer that is fond of Polaroid should be asked how he or she felt at the fist moment of using this instant technique? Why exactly this imperfect Polaroid, among millions of pixels or perfectly corrected lenses? Is there any more space in our brains for functioning as children’s, on a level that does not separate fantasy from reality? Is there better media to transfer these waves than Polaroid? Probably not.

PROJECT | the night dweller | Max Juhasz · Robert Gojević

It’s impossible for me to forget the exhilaration and awe I felt at the train station upon arriving to Zagreb for the very first time. The desire to get to know the city, and all my youthful fantasies of the beautiful things it will bestow on me… this was something special. It’s like a game of seduction between two strangers attracted to one another. And Zagreb has indeed bestowed many beautiful things on me: my job, love, family, home, friends and – most importantly – a place where I can feel at home, where I belong.

INTERVIEW | Ivica Bralic · Robert Gojevic

Do you have a clear vision of where and how you want to direct your future development in photography?

Vision, sounds somewhat heroic. Like if you were making a sacrifice or doing something noble. It seems to me I don’t posses such a vision and I don’t know where this road I’m on is taking me. I try to express myself according to my convictions and views, to create communication and discover new possibilities through playful experimenting. One could call this a vision or a goal. But there is much room for progress and development. For instance, I would like to work more with people and know how to organize the job better, be more systematic and more thought through. Sometimes it seems to me that the work of a photographer is more in finding a way, finding people, making arrangements for this and that, organizing oneself – than the sole act of photographing. On the other hand, I would like to use my instincts a bit more; to learn how to feel that joyous moment or how to provoke happiness. I believe this makes up a great part of photographer’s work. This is what seems valuable to me and a path for my development in photography.

COLUMN | IR · Ivica Bralic

2010 is an important year for photography – it will have been 100 years since mankind was able to save traces of invisible light. This gives us a great opportunity to reminiscent on a man who was the most responsible for thediscovery of IR and UV photography, Robert Wood (1868, Concord Massachusets – 1955, NY).

R. Wood was a man of wide horizons and broad interests – in his youth he aspired to become a priest, later on he acted as a successful writer (in the field of humanities), but his biggest achievements were realized in the field of spectroscopy and physical optics. His most popular and best known invention was the black light – a Wood lamp.

Moreover, due to his achievements in synthesising photographic emulsion sensitive to IR and UV light and by constructing a filter which blocks the way for visible light, he is dubbed the father of UV and IR photography.

GLOBULB | Jason Bell · Ivan Pekarik

Jason Bell took to camera at the age of five, and chose to pursue a career of portrait photographer during his studies of politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford University. Considering his current portfolio that features names such as Jonny Depp, David Beckham, Scarlett Johansson, Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Kate Winslet or Daniel Craig, one could say his choice of career was obviously a very good move..

PROJECT | Every woman can be beautiful | Ivana Benčić · Robert Gojević

Probably there is no woman that didn`t want to look differently than she does at a certain point, who didn`t feel better after leaving hairdresser`s, who didn`t feel happy after seeing she turned out awesome on some photo!

BLUR 16 GALERIJA 24 · Robert Gojević

01 | Gone | 220684 | http://220684.deviantart.com | Indonesian
02 | the body leaves | Enrique Verdugo | http://enriquever.com/thepath | Chile
03 | Buba | Vladimir Živković | http://oriontrail.deviantart.com | Croatia
04 | before morning dew | Hannah Albrecht | http://empyria.deviantart.com | Germany
05 | mata hari | Andreas Kämpf | http://fotoblog.refocus.de | Germany
06 | Demon Eyes | Sanja Kulušić | http://sweethooligan-she.deviantart.com | Croatia
07 | radni dan | romeo starcevic | Croatia
08 | Berries | Bjorn van Sinttruije | http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjornvansinttruije | The Netherlands
09 | In the abandoned lot III | Fenia Labropoulou | http://lafenia.com | Greece
10 | Butterfly Science II. | Ino Zeljak | http://www.inozeljak-photography.com | Croatia
11 | Broken Window | Carmen Gonzalez | http://www.carmengonzalez.org | The Netherlands
12 | Knight | piotr biegaj, iczek | http://piotrbiegaj.com | Poland
13 | chaos in the water | Dimita | http://photo.net/photos/choonga | Macedonia
14 | Zoo II | nathan appel | Rytis Gervickas | Lithuania
15 | oops, sorry darling | Zilvinas Valeika | http://www.fotopoezija.com | Lithuania
16 | Angel of the sea | Giovanni Cattabiani | http://katta80.deviantart.com | France
17 | milkyway | Katrin Kirojood | http://www.kirojood.se | Sweden
18 | Losing my soul on business trip | Matthieu G | http://mg-photographies.com | France
19 | Cekaj!! | Goran Vuković | Croatia
20 | Brooklyn, NY Fall | David Steele Overholt | http://www.davidoverholt.com | USA
21 | Face conntrol | GIORGI SHENGELIA | http://photomoment.bg/folder/show/573 | Georgia
22 | Front Line | Elina Lukas | http://www.flickr.com/photos/elinalukas | Estonia
23 | Girl in Gallery | Paul Patrick Borhaug | http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulborhaug | Norway
24 | Table Mountain ( Cape Town SA ) | Milan Josipovic | http://www.milanjosipovic.net | Serbia

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Editorial column, no.16

Blur admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:00:42 +0000

It’s already two years since we started. Although we constantly face fast creation and even quicker disappearance of various instant magazines, we believe that our persistence is recognised by all true lovers of high quality photography. And we guarantee that this is only the beginning.

We began as a free internet magazine, and we plan to keep it that way due to numerous advantages: we avoid high cost of distribution fees, we cross all territorial borders and reach every single part of the world in the best way, free of charge. However, 2010 is the year of big changes for BLUR magazine and our Photography Association Creatus (F.U.C.) because, abstract internet world aside, it is for the first time that we wish to act realistically and tangibly. Therefore, led by the main mission of our association, we are trying to create more exhibition space in Croatia and we plan to organize and set up several exhibitions.

Our first steps were a modest presentation of the founder of Croatian modern photography, Tošo Dabac, which was also the first online project making available the work of this great name in the world of photography and culture to everyone.

The Photography Association Creatus is involved today, whose members, among others, are Želimir Koščević (gallery Lang), Petar Dabac, Marina Benažić (Archive Tošo Dabac) and Iva Prosoli (Museum of city Zagreb), and who definitely know the work and life of Tošo Dabac best. Moreover, everything will be ‘spiced up’ with a special photography contest.

Recognitions and praises were unselfishly coming from different parts of the world, so besides being placed among 40 biggest and best online photo magazines in the world, BLUR magazine very soon became the exclusive media sponsor of The Impossible Project. This international collaboration granted us with the best possible birthday gift – organization of a big analogue photography exhibition entitled THE BEST POLAROID PHOTO. Apart from including the biggest ‘shoots’ of The Impossible Project into the contest, we will provide some really attractive prizes that will highlight, in the best way, the rebirth of instant analogue photography art.

To be honest, I never expected such splendid development and future for our project. We never lacked ambition, and I believe that we will continue to meet interesting people and collaborators who want to contribute to making photography world better.

In this optimistic mood, BLUR magazine wishes all readers from all around the world a Happy New Year!

Robert Gojević

POLAROID photo contest

Blur admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:45:07 +0000

Blur is proud to be the exclusive media sponsor of The Impossible Project, which is re-inventing analogue integral film for vintage Polaroid cameras in the former Polaroid factory in Enschede (the Netherlands).

The company of Polaroid stopped producing the instant film in June 2008, and the expiry date of the last films produced is 9 Oct 2009. After this, it will no longer be possible to purchase instant film – and Polaroid photography would thus be dead and gone forever.

But there is hope – The Impossible Project will launch new instant film materials in 2010. In the beginning of 2010, they will present a b&w analogue integral film for all SX70 and 600 camera models, and colour film will follow in summer, and by the end of 2010 they will bring Image film for Spectra cameras back.

To support this special photographic and artistic moment, Blur magazine, in collaboration with the Impossible Project, is organizing a big international contest of analogue instant photography under the name THE BEST POLAROID PHOTO.

The panel, consisting of leading team members of the Impossible Project and Blur magazine, will select 30 best photographs. These will be presented on the website of Blur, where readers can vote for the BEST POLAROID PHOTO. The five selected photographers will be awarded with attractive prizes, courtesy of the Impossible Project, and the best 30 photographs will be displayed in an exhibition in Zagreb.

More about the contest: http://www.blur-magazine.com/contest/

CONTEST

Blur admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:00:50 +0000

A gift from BLUR magazine – book of photographs “Marginalije”!
It is quite easy to participate! Just answer the question: In how many countries is BLUR magazine read? – and send us your answer via online submission. The fastest reader with the correct answer, or the closest to the correct number, will win the latest book by Stanko Abadžić “Marginalije”.

The contest is on from 1 Dec to 31 Dec 2009, and the lucky winner will be announced on BLUR web page and will be contacted via e-mail.

Send us your answers at:

http://www.blur-magazine.com/contact/…

VOX POPULI BLUR 16

Blur admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:30:34 +0000

Internet is a place of free promotion for every photographer. It is easy to use, the expenses are relatively low and it is the way to act ‘big’, without any territorial limits.

However, is this enough for any more ambitious, serious and successful photographer? Can photography be fully experienced over the monitor or one needs a high quality, big sized print out? Should such photographer also exhibit in galleries? And if so, should these galleries specialize in photography?

And this is where the following question pops up: What if this space doesn’t exist in your city? Who should take this into account? Is this only the responsibility of city halls and their departments for culture? Or do you believe that some people from photo industry, such as producers and distributors of photo equipment, specialized photo magazines, famous photographers, should get involved in solving this problem too?

Send your answers to vox@blur-magazine.com, and the best ones will be published in our next issue.…

IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT

Blur admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:00:23 +0000

The Impossible Project inspires Polaroid to re-launch Instant Cameras

Over the past 12 months, The Impossible Project has generated an incredible number of press reports, events and discussions about the fascination of Instant Photography, and particularly about its quest to keep this unique and captivating kind of photography alive – by re-inventing a new analog integral film for vintage Polaroid cameras.

Accomplishing this mission and running the former Polaroid plant in Enschede (NL), The Impossible Project is pleased to herewith announce a history-making cooperation between The Impossible Project and Polaroid: The new licensee of the Polaroid® Brand – The Summit Global Group – will relaunch some of the most famous Polaroid Instant Cameras and is therefore commissioning The Impossible Project to develop and produce a limited edition of Polaroid® branded Instant Films in the middle of 2010.

Summit Global held a press conference on 13th October 2009 in Hongkong, outlining their plans to re-produce some iconic Polaroid Instant Cameras and to bring them to the market in 2010 in a strategic relationship with The Impossible Project.

The Impossible Project is proud and excited that its ambitions and all the relentless work that has already been invested are now becoming the foundation for Polaroid’s comeback as a producer of Instant Cameras.

Large-scale production and worldwide sale of The Impossible Project’s new integral film materials under its own brand will already start in the beginning of 2010 – with a brand new and astonishing black and white Instant Film and the first colour films to follow in the course of the year.

Editorial column, no.15

Blur admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:04:35 +0000

They claim a picture says a thousand words, as in the case of our current front page, where a photograph by author Mathieu Richard-Arcouette perfectly symbolizes the new situation our magazine faces. But, if you haven’t already noticed the new design of our web page, you must have seen the domain name. In case you proceeded automatically, as most of us do while we surf, merely to downloaeved the latest issue, we have a surprise for you.

Is there anything strange about the logo you are so used to? Same dimensions, identical typography, equal number of letters, however – a different name, which is a bit more blurry than before. Even three letters match, but they are in a different order. Why, what for, and what happened?

…every change hurts a bit. We all somehow subconsciously know this, which is the reason why we are afraid of changes and often unnecessarily try to postpone them. Despite possibly creating wounds that slowly heal or leave bitter aftertaste, changes are necessary because they are the only path to improvement and progress

It is quite obvious that, despite the change, we didn’t want to break the links to our, now former, Bulb magazine. Otherwise, we would have chosen a completely new name, visual identity and made whatever changes. On the contrary, we decided to nourish the tradition and if you take a look to what the editorial staff blurb says, you can see almost all collaborators are still there. Our family even grew so that our common project could do better and have greater results.

Snake has always been a symbol of change, and as it sheds its skin when it becomes too small, we too had to make certain changes in order to improve. However, every change hurts a bit. We all somehow subconsciously know this, which is the reason why we are afraid of changes and often unnecessarily try to postpone them. Despite possibly creating wounds that slowly heal or leave bitter aftertaste, changes are necessary because they are the only path to improvement and progress. Krešimir, co-founder of Bulb magazine, will no longer be on the Blur team and will face new challenges by running the Bulb association. Given that Krešimir was the one who suggested the Bulb name, and us being such gentlemen, we let him keep it. We would like to thank him for all the effort and work. In front of us there are now new goals and paths which will, we are convinced, justify necessary changes.

But let us go back to our first thought that a picture says a thousand words. Is it always so, is this an undisputable rule? Imagine, for example, a photograph where you see two lovers hugging, an aesthetic and artistic love scene that hides more than it reveals. Everything fits perfectly, a photograph worth admiring.

Suddenly, as the seed of doubt arises, followed by a negative cliché of a half empty instead of a half full glass, the perception of the same love scene changes. All of our moralistic, philosophical and diabolic alter egos have something to say. Perhaps this is a man that cheats on his wife, or vice versa? Maybe it’s a man with 2 women? What if one of them changed his/her sex, or if this is actually a man with a blow-up doll… If it would make any sense, or if we had more time and space, I am convinced we could gather more than one thousand words.

On the other hand, we are completely immune to and not affected by important things which we should constantly question, react on and think about, yet we remain utterly apathetic. We can not but wonder if photography and photographs should act in this manner as well? Despite the difficult economic situation, time when everybody cares but for material interests, when there is no class and everything seems so tacky, while media constantly bomb us with rubbish and depression, a bunch of workaholics volunteer and try to further improve this magazine.

Despite possibly creating wounds that slowly heal or leave bitter aftertaste, changes are necessary because they are the only path to improvement and progress.

Robert Gojevic, editor in chief

VOX POPULI BLUR 15

Blur admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:46:15 +0000

The world of photography is full of subjective and endless discussions: black and white or full color photography, filters or without, digitally processed or a set of harmonized settings, analogue or digital film… One could go on forever. And, of course, there is personal experience behind every answer, as well as personal experience, emotional attachment, but also rational argumentation.

We would like to know about your thoughts and opinions. We plan to present a new theme, a new question in every issue, and you can send us your statements and explanations that support these or otherwise via e-mail or by using contact form. We will publish most interesting answers in our next issue.

This time we were inspired by a brave ‘Impossible project’, founded by a group of enthusiasts that will reproduce analogue instant film.

When asked what the reason behind the challenge is and why they believe the project will not only be possible, but also very successful, they said:

We believe in Polaroid as a strong and unique counterpart to digitalized world that we’re living in. The Digital Revolution completely changed the perspectives, possibilities but also the character of photography. After some years of playing and experimenting with their new digital cameras, people began to miss some aspects of analogue instant photography which they had not been aware of before – or even complained about.
They started longing for real pictures which they could touch, feel and smell. Looking at all the “perfect” and clean digital pictures, they remembered more and more the good days when every single picture was an experiment, an unpredictable adventure, slowly developing in the palms of their hands. They even had to accept the fact that they started missing the high purchase price of analogue Instant film as they found out that it really helps taking good pictures when carefully pushing the trigger, aware of every “click” costing real money. Polaroid film stands for unpredictable visual adventures combined with a splendid retro-style feeling.

Our questions:
Do you think instant photography is by certain properties more valuable than digital photography? What are the advantages of Polaroid cameras when compared to digital ones? There are great numbers of loyal users of Polaroid technique worldwide. Do you believe the retro aspect of instant film can create a new fashion ‘boom’ in photography world and increase Polaroid art scene further? Would you, besides your digital camera, also appreciate having a Polaroid one?

Send away!

Blur magazine 15

deva — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:39:09 +0000

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Blur magazine is proud to be an exclusive media sponsor of the ‘Impossible Project’. The magazine supporting and ‘celebrating’ artistic photography, it is always a pleasure for us to encourage such courageous and historically important undertakings which will, we are convinced, not only succeed but lead to a true cultural revolution in the world of photography. In this issue you can read an exclusive interview with Florian Kaps, executive director of the project, and find out all the facts related to the “Impossible Project” as well as how to contribute to its success.

INTERVIEW | Florian Kaps · Robert Gojević

Who is we?

That’s me, my partner André Bosman, former production manager of Polaroid and now executive director for development and production, Marwan Saba, non-executive director of finance & legal – and most important our team of the most experienced Integral Film experts worldwide. 9 former workers of Polaroid in Enschede (NL) are developing the new film with us.

For further information related to the ‘Impossible Project,’ please visit the official web page: http://www.the-impossible-project.com

INTERVIEW | Stanko Abadžić · Robert Gojević

A lot of authors take to nude photography. What makes your effort different? The world consumes photography, but photography also consumes the world. There isn’t a single place on Earth where a photographer hasn’t set foot. In this flood of photographic images, it’s very difficult to present something new, authentic and your own. This is especially important for nude photography. Nudity surrounds us: it’s in the media, the newspapers and on newsstands, in commercials, on billboards, it jumps on us from TV screens. There are few products today that aren’t advertised using the naked female figure. I’ve tried hard to reveal my permanent inspiration with the female form to the observer of my photography. I’ve taken photos of women in such a way to present them as subjects, not objects of exploitation, as this is often the case with commercials and the media. I wanted to express my respect for them, to affirm the beauty and aesthetics of the body. In other words, I wanted to express the poetic image of the female body.

PROJECT | Marianne Le Carrour | Andreea Anghel | Alessandra Lanzafame · Loredana Guinicelli

Let me introduce you to a very special project. It’s about some extraordinary women who speak of their souls using the camera. Thanks to photography we nowadays have the opportunity to use great instruments able to capture our secrets and peculiarities. For this reason people use their cameras more and more often just like poets used pens in the past.

This is a story of dreams coming to life. This is our story, a dance of souls.

PORTFOLIO | Ana Lorencin · Robert Gojević

I would probably describe myself as an author in search of strong details, or timeless angles. I’m fascinated by anything that’s black and white to begin with, anything mysterious, with a comic book touch to it. When I identify my motifs, I tell myself what I personally feel about them, and then transfer all those ideas into final post-processing, which is crucial in expressing wanted atmosphere.

GLOBULB | Bombay Flying Club · Ivan Pekarik

A project started by three freelance news photographers, Poul Madsen and Henrik Kastenskov from Denmark and Brent Foster from Canada, mostly thrills by its original idea – their website is a representation not only of exceptional photography, not only of exceptional web design, but a representation of exceptional journalism, journalism suited to the 21st century.

COLUMN | Polaroids · Mare Milin

When I think about it, I know that is one of the best photo things that ever happened to me. From the moment when, with a specific buzz, it finds its way through the tiny passage in the camera, which kind of spits it on my palm, and I watch it as some kind of miracle, fading in gently. And I admire it for being so beautiful at all stages of the development, changing its density, colors and contrasts and then becomes something else. So human-like. Polaroid is being born, it comes to be, it fades, it dies.

History of the Polaroid · Ivan Zidar

His three year old daughter Jennifer asked why she could not see the photograph just after being taken. Land decided to please children’s curiosity and started considering many options while walking for an hour in Santa Fe.

POLAROID – Memory keepers · Isidora Vujošević

Hazy veil spread over Polaroid images captures the moment. It seems that memories are stronger with Polaroids.

POLAROID PORTOFOLIO · Ivan Zidar

Ivan Zidar was born in Pula, Croatia, in 1978. During high school he volunteered in production of Radio Pula programme. Between 1996 and 1998, he worked for Croatian TV studio in Pula and, since 2001, he has been in new media production. He is the owner of an agency for video production, graphic design and event management. During the last couple of years he produced numerous documentaries, promotional or experimental movies out of which the most recent one was shown in 18th Croatian Film Days. He mostly explores photography using Polaroid lenses.

http://www.ivanzidar.com
http://people.polanoid.net/Ivan

GALERIJA 24 · Robert Gojević

01 | Agata | Adam Sewastianowicz | http://franekchrzonszcz.deviantart.com/ | Poland
02 | Halcyon | Amanda Valloza | http://www.maebird.synthasite.com | USA
03 | der Lachende Vagabund | Ivan Pekarik | http://john-pecko.deviantart.com/ | Hrvatska
04 | Gondole | Biserko Fercek Hrvatska | http://spare-bibo.deviantart.com/
05 | Dylan | AndrewF | www.andrewf.com | England
06 | Lucifers toy | Petra Nenadic | Hrvatskaa | http://toolost.deviantart.com/
07 | If | piotr malkiewicz | http://przypadek.deviantart.com/gallery/
08 | Delicate | England | http://www.imageofmuse.com
09 | Alice In Wonderland | Panji Indra Permana | http://panjiindra.viewbook.com | Indonesia
10 | Two good friends | Vaggelis E Fragiadakis | vaggelis.deviantart.com |USA
11 | Muszka | Sonia Szóstak |http://muszka.deviantart.com/ | Poland
12 | Couture rider | Robin Alfian | www.robinpika.deviantart.com | Indonesia
13 | Unobservant | Johan Lind | http://jo-lind.daportfolio.com | Sweden
14 | mandy morbid and zak sabbath in bushwick | nathan appel | www.nathanappel.com | USA
15 | The dog | Uzengia Aleksandar Nedic | Hrvatska | http://www.uzengia.com
16 | black | Damir Gavranovic | http://www.flickr.com/photos/damirgavranovic/ | BiH
17 | The shamanic healer | Hélène Deroubaix | http://helenina.com | France
18 | Slap | Dušan Grbac | http://fotozine.org/index.php?omen=dg | Hrvatska
19 | Nude Girl | José Ferreira | www.joseferreiraphotographer.com | Portugal
20 | Amateur | Juriy Ronzhin | http://juriyronzhin.portfolio.artlimited.net/ | Russia |
21 | Running away | Mike Bailey-Gates | http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbg_photos/ | United States
22 | moving | Maximilian Baeuchle |—-| Germany
23 | Ice Machine | Nicholas Vroman | http://nickvroman.wordpress.com/ | Japan
24 | Idrophobia | Stella Asia Consonni AKA Aphnea | www.aphnea.carbonmade.com | Italy

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Impossible Project

deva — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:47:32 +0000

Polaroid re-positioned itself from an analog Instant Film Production Company to a global Consumer Electronics and Digital Imaging company, with new high quality mass products. Shutting down factories in Mexico and Netherlands in June 2008, production of integral Polaroid film was globally stopped.

In October 2008, the company of Impossible B.V. founded the ‘Impossible project’ and acquired the complete production plant in Enschede (Netherlands). They engaged the most experienced team of Integral Film experts worldwide, aiming to re-invent and re-produce analog instant film. Since some important components of Polaroid film do not exist anymore, this ‘impossible’ project is focusing on the development of completely new film that could also be used on vintage Polaroid cameras. The first prototype is expected as soon as October 2009, and production is planned to start beginning of 2010.

Blur magazine is proud to be an exclusive media sponsor of the ‘Impossible Project’. The magazine supporting and ‘celebrating’ artistic photography, it is always a pleasure for us to encourage such courageous and historically important undertakings which will, we are convinced, not only succeed but lead to a true cultural revolution in the world of photography. In this issue you can read an exclusive interview with Florian Kaps, executive director of the project, and find out all the facts related to the ‘Impossible Project’ as well as how to contribute to its success. More on this on page XY. In addition, our next issues will continue covering this topic – we will inform you about the development of the project itself, survey the history of Polaroid film, current projects done using this specific technique and introduce the work of one Croatian Polaroid photographer.

For further information related to the ‘Impossible Project,’ please visit the official web page:
http://www.the-impossible-project.com!

Bulb magazine 14

robart — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:00:46 +0000

PROJECT

Pervan/Vrdoljak

INTERVIEW

Vladimir Longauer

GALLERY 24

01 | Rain mood | Zilvinas Valeika | http://www.fotopoezija.com | Lithuania
02 | Ancient Deviant Circus – Foucalt’s Pendulum | Riccardo Giordano | http://www.riccardogiordano.com | Italy
03 | Potpora na tržnici | Ivana Krnjić | Hrvatska
04 | Satir | yonky hermawan | http://lomonomore.multiply.com | Indonesia
05 | Blood | Nicholas Vroman | http://nickvroman.wordpress.com | Japan
06 | Untitled | Eugene Levit | http://www.eugenelevit.com | Israel
07 | Railway | Janed Kharisma H.P | http://jeohate.deviantart.com | Indonesia
08 | Walkway | Mark Voce | http://www.markvoce.com | UK
09 | Sand Dune | Jeremy Farrance | http://jez92.deviantart.com | UK
10 | Devant la lumière | Christophe llorca | http://www.christophellorca.com | France
11 | Gdje je nestao čovjek | Igor Apostolovski | Hrvatska
12 | Asymmetrical architecture 2 | Alexander Lehmann | http://alexander-lehmann.deviantart.com | Germany
13 | Breeze | Mike Bailey-Gates | http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbg_photos | United States
14 | 06:00 | Uwe Baeuchle | http://www.bicolored.eu | Germany
15 | Shoot Me | Asli KOLcu | http://www.aslikolcu.com | Turkey
16 | “~” | Stephan Opitz | http://www.opitz-photographie.de | Germany
17 | The fallen friend | Luca Donati | http://www.lucadonati.net | Italia
18 | Walking on the desert bridge | Juriy Ronzhin | http://juriyronzhin.portfolio.artlimited.net | Russia
19 | On the Phone | Igor Stanojevic | http://lustforleica.deviantart.com | Serbia
20 | Living nearby | Hubert Czajkowski | http://forsetitheugly.deviantart.com | Poland
21 | Sonia’s Stairs | Luc Kordas | http://www.luckordas.com | Poland
22 | Du Domaine Des possibles | Samuel Moulin | http://www.samuel-moulin.fr | France
23 | Je n’aurais pas du mettre des chaussettes bleues avec un jean noir | Jean-Christophe Sartoris | http://jcsartoris.com | France
24 | Love | Christopher Hibbert | http://www.christopher-hibbert.com | France

Smashing Magazine

Blur admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:24:23 +0000

Smashing Magazine announces 40 best online photography magazines – and BLUR is one of them!

Whatever country we live in, we’re probably all familiar with the well-known photography magazines available in our newsagents and bookstores. The UK has Practical Photography, France has Photo, the Italians have Zoom and the Americans have American Photo. What you may not know is that there are many more photography magazines that are only available online. And some of them are good, very good.

That’s the great thing about online publishing. It’s cheap, it’s easy, and just about anyone with a PC and an internet connection can take part. The difficulty lies in putting together a quality publication, something that rivals the best commercial magazines for content and quality (we hope you think that Smashing Magazine just does that!)

As an introduction to the wonderful world of online photography magazines, we put together a list of the biggest and best that we could find. You won’t find these magazines in your local bookstore, they’re only available online. From photojournalism to portraiture, from landscapes to lomography (and everything in between), you’ll find the most amazing photography and discover the work of some of the world’s best photographers, both famous and unknown. Dive in and enjoy their work.

What does Smashing Magazine say about BLUR magazine (ex-Bulb magazine): Brings the work of creative, but lesser known, photographers to a wide audience.

01 | Road To Nowhere | Vladimir Konovalov | http://soulofautumn87.deviantART.com | Ukraine
02 | On The Wet Cobblestones | Mikael Hörnlund | http://www.mikaelraymond.com | Sweden
03 | Ordinary Day | Alina Andrei | http://www.alinaandrei.blogspot.com | Romania
04 | sin,otac,10mm, blic,ulica,vijeeetar | Samir Kurtagic | http://www.fotozine.org/?omen=samir | Croatia
05 | Encounter | Abdul Qadir | http://www.flickr.com/photos/fursid | Pakistan
06 | Hellzapoppin’| Daniela Verde | http://catpuff-noir.deviantart.com | Italy
07 | Goodbye Summer | Sophie Cagnac | http://sidhonline.net | France
08 | Je m’ubiquite! | Christophe Llorca | http://www.christophellorca.com | France
09 | Untitled 011 | Lasse Damgaard | http://nullermanden.deviantart.com | Denmark
10 | Red | Tanya Gramatikova | http://tan-nya.deviantart.com | Bulgaria
11 | Barrel Time | David Cardoso | http://www.davidone.fr | France
12 | TV this | Tomislav Moze | http://tomislav-moze.deviantart.com | Croatia
13 | Next Round | Antonio Navarro Wijkmark | http://www.wijkmarkphoto.com | Spain
14 | Pinky | Kaycee Kennedy | http://kayceeus.deviantart.com | USA
15 | Чистое Небо | Admir Srabović | http://crtani.blogger.ba | BiH
16 | Minnedosa I | Michael Lalande | http://rubberman542.deviantart.com | Canada/Japan
17 | Fusionwave | Vladimir Longauer | http://www.valdoo.net | Slovakia/Ireland
18 | Julia, Thomas and Nyx | Peter Barker-Morgan | http://petesface.wordpress.com | UK
19 | Freedom of choice | Richard Scalzo | http://www.richardscalzo.net | USA
20 | 048 | Tatjana Krstić | http://tiki1.deviantart.com | Croatia
21 | Smog | Gábor Hollósi | http://www.varnnyu.blogspot.com | Hungary
22 | 55 | Felix Lupa | http://www.felixlupa.com | Israel
23 | Sweet Dream | Stefano Orazzini | http://www.stefanoorazzini.com | Italy
24 | Moment of inspiration | Vedran Marjanovic | http://www.wekster.bloger.hr | Croatia

Bulb magazine 08

robart — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:00:48 +0000

GALLERY 24

01 | Andre Koenig | Killer eyes | http://www.fotoartak.com | Germany
02 | Damir Ivankovic | Blindsided | http://www.flickr.com/photos/divankovic | Croatia
03 | Sandra Stimac | Arrival of the Princess | http://slatkatajna.deviantart.com| Croatia
04 | Hakan Strand | Stepping Stones | http://www.strand-photo.com | Sweden
05 | Kresimir Petrovic | Listopad | http://www.hrphotocontest.com/index.php?menu=5&usrID=3473 | Croatia
06 | Sophie Thouvenin | Blue stairs | http://www.prismes.com | France
07 | Hasan Jaber |IMG_1039 | http://mutodori.deviantart.com | Lebanon
08 | Laura Naum | On Top of Bucharest | http://diehappy-x.deviantart.com | Romania
09 | Marquita Norwood | Closet Space | http://www.marquitanorwood.com | United States
10 | Michael Yang | American Dream | http://catchme-22.deviantart.com | New Zealand
11 | Elena Kalis | Calm Down | http://www.elenakalisphoto.com | The Bahams (Russian born)
12 | Minon | When we move… | http://home.fotocommunity.de/minon | Germany
13 | Loredana Guinicelli | E’ | http://www.loredanaguinicelli.com | Italy
14 | Jaroslav Beno | Apples | http://yaribeno.dphoto.com | Slovakia/UK
15 | Wolf189 | Zaya | http://www.wolf189.com | United States
16 | Christophe llorca | La question se pose V | http://www.christophellorca.com | France
17 | Gilles Maselli | CCouleurs sur la vill | http:/Gm75.deviantart.com | France
18 | Viesturs Links | no title | http://www.links.lv | Latvia
19 | silent-view | no title | http://www.silent-view.com | Germany
20 | Bambang allay Noroyono | Begin + | http://220684.deviantart.com | Indonesia
21 | Alexander Mikhailenko | Wedding n14 | http://www.photografica.in.ua | Ukraine
22 | Mick Ryan | Untitled | http://www.mickryan.com | Ireland
23 | Nicolas Genette | Capbreton | http://www.nicolasgenette.com | France
24 | Igor Apostolovski | Jesen u parku | igor.apostolovski@novatv.hr | Croatia

Bulb magazine 07

robart — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:00:37 +0000

GALLERY 24

01 | Pattern | Sorici Andrei Constatin | andrei_sorici@yahoo.com (Romania)
02 | Genocide Daisy | Ariana Jordan | www.arianajordan.com (USA)
03 | Ghostfield | Brian Wasser | http://ghostfield.deviantart.com (USA)
04 | The Dark Age of Love I | Daia Diana-Alexandra | http://anemic-cinema.deviantart.com (Austria)
05 | Dashiv | Danijel Šivinjski | http://sivinjski.com (Croatia)
06 | Butterfly in the dark | Labropoulou Fenia | http://photofenia.deviantart.com (Greece)
07 | Old Couple | Davor Konjikusic | www.davorko.net (Croatia)
08 | Extreme photoshooting | Edin Pašović | http://villewilson.deviantart.com (BiH)
09 | Sans titre | Frédérique Niquet-Châtelet | www.audoigtetaloeil.fr (France)
10 | … | Jordi Esteban | chocolatenoir.deviantart.com/ (Spain)
11 | daily poetry | Calisto | http://www.calistonet.ch (Switzerland)
12 | Summer is here | Marty Smits | www.smarts.nl/BouncingLight (Netherlands)
13 | Taraneh Alidoosti Portrait | Milad Sahafzadeh | www.miladsahafzadeh.com (Canada)
14 | no idea | Victor Bezrukov | http://s-t-r-a-n-g-e.deviantart.com (Israel)
15 | Halfway | Sam Smith | www.unanything.com (USA)
16 | The Two worlds | Suisse | http://ssuisse.portfolio.artlimited.net (France)
17 | Love | Tanya Traboulsi | http://www.tanyatraboulsi.com (Lebanon/Austria)
18 | The refuge | Tina Erman | http://free-pu.t-com.hr/tinae (Croatia)
19 | crack | Tom Rousselon | http://tom-ripley.deviantart.com (France)
20 | joy-in | Varga Silvija | http://beebie.deviantart.com (Serbia)
21 | Roaring | Xavi Fuentes | http://www.xavifuentes.com (Spain)
22 | Valencian Dream | Julija Svetlova | http://svetlova.multiply.com | UK
23 | “untitled8″ | Michael Bladek | http://www.mbladek.com
24 | … | Javier Villar | www.jvillar.es (Spain)

Bulb magazine 06

robart — Sat, 31 May 2008 22:00:01 +0000

LIST BULB Magazine 06

GALLERY 24

01 | Fly In The Freedom | Marina Filipovic | http://www.marinshe.com | Hrvatska
02 | Morning Moon | Saba Shengelia | http://beqa-karanteli.photosight.ru | Georgia
03 | Alice | Lori Crewe | http://photo.net/photos/lacrewe | Canada
04 | Exit | Doruk Hemen | http://www.fotokritik.com/kullanici/olmeca | Turkey
05 | Pin | Raina Vlaskovska | http://www.obscurography.com | Bulgaria
06 | 00 07 | Samuel Moulin | http://siamesesam.deviantart.com | France
07 | Half air, half water | Elise Pinault | http://lenahiia.deviantart.com/ | France
08 | February | Gökhan Karaag | http://ggokhann.deviantart.com | Turkey
09 | Lottery | Ozgur Cakir | http://oscarsnapshotter.deviantart.com/ | Turkey
10 | To me | Bachar Srour | http://beyrout.deviantart.com/ | Lebanon
11 | Saturday | Alina Andrei | http://www.alinaandrei.blogspot.com | Romania
12 | The Lurker | Jeff T. Alu | http://www.animalu.com/pics/photos.htm | USA
13 | Extreme photoshooting | Edin Pasovic | http://villewilson.deviantart.com | BiH
14 | Broken Heart | Damir Sencar | http://www.sencar.hr | Hrvatska
15 | Pijavica | Vlaho Pustic | http://www.hrphotocontest.com/index.php?menu=5&usrID=4447 | Hrvatska
16 | Amsterdam Memories | Miquel Galceran | http://www.miquelgalceran.com | Spain
17 | The Joy Ballad | Archan Nair | http://badampista.croppedcircles.net | India
18 | Umay Umay | I was hidden in the water | http://streetqueen.deviantart.com | Turkey
19 | Sherlock Holmes | Thea Akelić | http://crvena69.deviantart.com | Hrvatska
20 | Electricity Made Us Angels | Stephen Pierce | http://baddogltd.deviantart.com | USA
21 | Fishing Dream 5 | Marc Brouquet | http://marcopolo17.deviantart.com | France
22 | Lost | Adrian Gillberg | http://addeg.deviantart.com | Poland/Sweden
23 | Paris La Défense – Tour Dexia | Camille Mesny | http://kahouane.deviantart.com | France
24 | Starchild | Kristijan Antolovic | http://incalius.fotozine.org | Hrvatska

coolness…

Bulb magazine 05

robart — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:00:25 +0000

LIST BULB Magazine 05

GALERIJA 24

01 | The ghost of you | Lucia Constantin | http://dinnerspoiler.deviantart.com | Romania
02 | Honeybee | Glorija Lizde | http://aurelie91.deviantart.com | Hrvatska
03 | The boy in the bubble | Kristina Tesija | http://www.gospodarsamoce.deviantart.com | Hrvatska
04 | Shy | April Youren | http://apri1.deviantart.com | USA
05 | Finding the perfect balance | Buke Serifoglu | http://barcarola.deviantart.com | Turkey
06 | Modern Nymph | Susannah Benjamin | http://flickr.com/photos/ireland1324 | Ireland
07 | Toy | Jean-Christophe Roux | http://www.jean-christophe-roux.book.fr | France
08 | Hazard | ANDREI VOCUREK | http://www.kerucov.ro | Romaina
09 | Zebras | Elina Kasesalu | http://www.zone.ee/sipsic | Estonia
10 | Dala (“Far in time” in Bondei) | Elena Kalis | http://www.elenakalisphoto.com | The Bahamas (born in Russia)
11 | Listening to the silence | Oleksandr Hnatenko | http://gnato.deviantart.com | Ukraine/Austria
12 | Don’t be afraid spring will come | Gundega Dege | http://www.sundewart.com | Latvi
13 | Bisou Tordu (n°6) | Julien Pacaud | http://www.institutdrahomira.com/julienpacaud | France
14 | Away | Omid Nemalhabib | http://409.portfolio.artlimited.net/ | Iran
15 | Damaged by provocation | Karmen Poznic | http://jasamijesamoblak.deviantart.com/ | Hrvatska
16 | Just do it | Sharad Haksar | http://www.sharadhaksar.com | India
17 | Sparks | JonPaul Douglass | http://www.jonpauldouglass.com | USA
18 | Punk Rokcers | Fuat YILDIZ | http://fuatyildiz.deviantart.com/gallery/ | Turkey
19 | cobo nogo session | Samir Kurtagic | http://www.photo.net/photos/samir | Hrvatska
20 | So smile | Loredana Guinicelli | http://www.glitterdarkstar.deviantart.com | Italy
21 | Metanoia | Olga Miljko | http://www.spider-kiss.deviantart.com | USA
22 | Breathe In | Crina PRIDA | http://mamazmeilor.deviantart.com/ | Romania
23 | silent-view photography | end.zeit | http://www.silent-view.com | Germany
24 | go this way, please | swasti dini | shas | http://missaassiimii.deviantart.com | Indonesia
25 | Black-eyed | Eugene Suo-me | http://suo-me.deviantart.com | Russia
26 | No Title for Photos | Eolo Perfido | http://www.eoloperfido.com | Italy
27 | Amateurs-2 | Sergey Molokovich | http://serg-mc.deviantart.com | Ukraine

Bulb magazine 04

robart — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:00:35 +0000

LIST BULB Magazine 04

GALLERY 24

01 | Cencored | Ida Bagus Nyoman Widyantara | http://widyantara.deviantart.com | Indonesia
02 | Brain Wash | Matthieu GRYMONPREZ | http://kosmo.canalblog.com | France
03 | Flying trousers | Graham Mitchell | http://www.foto-z.com | UK
04 | 85 past | Adam Bartas | http://www.adambartas.com | Czech Republic
05 | Plitvice | Tomislav Filipcic | http://www.filipcic.com | Hrvatska
06 | Free your mind | Calisto | http://www.calistonet.ch | Switzerland
07 | Butterfly effect | Kristijan Antolovic | http://incalius.fotozine.org | Hrvatska
08 | Embryonic | Holly Bynoe | http://www.hbynoe.com | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
09 | Little happy moments | http://www.hbynoe.com | http://noualume.blogspt.com | Romania
10 | Lost | David Mihoci | http://www.mihoci.com | Hrvatska
11 | Hanya Aku dan Kalengku | Chandra Prawendha | http://chandra7.deviantART.com | Indonesia
12 | Fish and Man | Bogdan Zwir | http://www.zwir.ru | Russia
13 | Soft Sand | Tom Everaerts | http://dubbel2.deviantart.com | Belgium
14 | XFK the New Generation | Gonçalo Borges Dias | http://www.flickr.com/photos/GoncaloborgesDias | Portugal
15 | Wind of passion | Robert Lubanski | http://bagnino.deviantart.com | Poland
16 | Doll | Rachmat Lianda | http://arhcamtilnaad.deviantart.com | Indonesia
17 | The silence before the storm | Benjamin Cortis | http://www.cortis.info | Germany
18 | 86 | Katarzyna Rzeszowska | http://www.katarzynarzeszowska.com | Poland
19 | Control the World | Milka Mitrovic | http://freckledmystery.deviantart.com | Serbia
20 | Lady in White | Jeremy Brotherton | http://brothertonphotography.blogspot.com | USA
21 | Sozopol In December | Velichko Estov | http://veniamin.deviantart.com | Bulgaria
22 | Magic Bus | Theodoros Chliapas | http://www.tchliapas.com | Greece
23 | Yangshuo | Bernardo Medina | http://www.4eyesphoto.com | Texas, USA
24 | My mental suffering | Raina Vlaskovska | http://www.obscurography.com | Bulgaria

Bulb magazine 03

robart — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:00:32 +0000

LIST BULB Magazine 03

GALLERY 24

01 | Damir Alter Matijević | Time machine 1 | http://w34a.deviantart.com/ | Hrvatska
02 | Akif Hakan Celebi | In Her Own Velvet Dreams | http://www.hakanphotography.com | USA/Turkey
03 | Emese Benko – Onisor | Childhood Stories | http://www.emesebenko.com | Romania
04 | Pedro Daniel Alves Ribeiro | My Kingdom for a donkey | http://methodavantgarde.deviantart.com | Portugal
05 | Claudio Naboni | Closer to the sun red switched…| http://www.aftercode.com | Italy
06 | Ana-Marija Petricevic | All my love | http://www.chocolate-sheep.deviantart.com | Hrvatska
07 | Carla Broekhuizen | Polaroid Farming | http://www.imagecreative.nl | Netherlands
08 | Andreea Victoria Anghel | Apples and pears | http://www.cigaro.carbonmade.com | Romania
09 | Ida Bagus Pradnyana |Lonely King | http://www.pistonbroke.deviantart.com | Bali – Indonesia
10 | Arman Zhenikeyev | Keep Distance | http://photo.net/photos/Novic | Republic of Kazakhstan
11 | David Severn | RMS Mulheim – Watery Grave | http://www.davidsevern.com | England
12 | Dean Zulich | F-e-v-e-r | http://www.deanzulich.com | USA
13 | Igor Šćekić | Siluethes Far Away 2 | http://virus69.net | Hrvatska
14 | Goran Popovic | undgrnd | http://geniusindahouzz.deviantart.com | Hrvatska
15 | Emel Byram | Alice | http://www.emelbayram.com | France
16 | Juha M. Kinnunen | Gele | http://jjuuhhaa.deviantart.com | Finland
17 | Karmen Orlic Grzetic | At stage | http://kaarmen.deviantart.com | Hrvatska
18 | Jean-Pierre PEFFIER | Smile | http://objectix.deviantart.com | France
19 | Silvijo Selman | Winter Blues | http://www.myspace.com/slywayart | Hrvatska
20 | Katerina Tumanova Belkina | Bluebeard | http://www.belkina.ru | Russia
21 | Lidia López | Enfermedad | http://frozeninstants.deviantart.com | Spain
22 | Ralf Brunner | diploma-photographer | http://www.ralfbrunner.com | Germany
23 | Ramez EL SAID | Nerd | http://bleuz.deviantart.com | France
24 | Zhang Jingna | Before the Storm | http://zemotion.net | Singapore

Bulb magazine 02

robart — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:00:35 +0000

LIST BULB Magazine 02

CONTENT

Interview - Erdal Kinaci
Project - Marie Astrid Gonzalez
Column - Mare Milin
News - Marina Filipovic

GALLERY 24

01 | Izidor Tackovic | Electrified | Hrvatska | http://izzidorius.deviantart.com
02 | Andrew Farrington | The Runner | UK | http://www.andrewf.com
03 | Branislav Fabijanic | Di Caprio | Hrvatska | bfabijanich@yahoo.com
04 | Cameny | The Shadow | Hrvatska | http://www.hrphotocontest.com/index.php?menu=5&usrID=1020
05 | Dariusz Klimczak | Moonfield | Poland | http://kleemass.deviantart.co/
06 | Matysiak Asia | My own five minutes | Poland | http://www.xbladelokix.deviantart.com
07 | Maja Stasni | Classic Movie Diva | Hrvatska | http://www.majastasni.com
08 | Kresimir Tubikanec | Plitvice 3 |Hrvatska | http://www.hrphotocontest.com/index.php?menu=5&usrID=1746
09 | Andry Alamsyah | When the sun goes down | Indonesia | http://br3w0k.deviantart.com
10 | Chaerul Umam | Hope | Indonesia | http://www.mrizalcs.deviantart.com
11 | Marty Smits | Beachballs | Netherlands | http://www.smarts.nl/BouncingLight
12 | Vladimir Mudrovcic – Mudri | Dio Tame | Hrvatska | mudri.deviantart.com
13 | Gary Stubelick | Spiral Staircase | United States | http://g-flip.deviantart.com
14 | Vitaly Bakhvalov | Aquarium | Russia | http://vitalybakhvalov.com
15 | Vladimir_Longauer | Angel_Exit | Ireland | http://valdoo.deviantart.com
16 | Kresimir Kopcic | Little Miss Sunshine | Hrvatska | http://www.flickr.com/photos/kopcic
17 | Sinisa Glogoski | Failure…is always the best way to learn | Hrvatska | s.glogoski@gmail.com
18 | Vincent Teuliere | Fixed-point theorem | France | http://vteuliere.free.fr
19 | Ewa Lena Brzozowska | Black Cat | Poland | http://www.ewabrzozowska.szm.sk
20 | Victor Bezrukov | Twice the power | Israel | http://s-t-r-a-n-g-e.deviantart.com
21 | Hermin Abramovitch | Global Warming | Israel | http://ahermin.deviantart.com
22 | Michel Rajkovic | black light | France | http://www.michelrajkovic.fr
23 | Ivica Bralic | Y |Hrvatska | http://pastyr.info
24 | Mougin Philippe | Emergeance |France | http://www.philippemougin.com

Bulb magazine 01

robart — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:00:24 +0000

LIST BULB Magazine 01

CONTENT

Interview – Mare Milin
Project – Biserko Fercek

GALLERY 24

01 | Martina Škrobot | Winter #2 | Hrvatska | http://tynas.deviantart.com
02 | Ryan Schude | Bago | USA | http://www.ryanschude.com
03 | Adrian Hudson | Superpowers | England | http://greenie.deviantart.com
04 | CORREIA Emmanuel | Floating TV | France | http://emmanuel.correia.free.fr
05 | Natasa Radovic | MOORING PILES / PALI | Italija/Hrvatska | http://www.natart.it
06 | Marianne Le Carrour | Lost in Her Thoughts | France | http://www.mariannelecarrour.net
07 | Bruno Mercier | Wind and Wuthering IV – 2007 | France | http://www.pixydream.com
08 | Frane Verbanac | Smart Anker | Hrvatska | frane.verbanac@gmail.com
09 | Jerome Jouanno | Poppy time part II | UK | http://jerome-jouanno.com
10 | Frédéric Gaillard | Les chemins | France | http://fredg.deviantart.com
11 | Per Valentin | ASDF | Danmark | http://www.pervalentin.com
12 | Bruno Pantone | Nexus | Italy | http://www.brunopantone.com
13 | Sophie Thouvenin | When she smiles | France | http://www.prismes.com
14 | Manuel Garcia Quintana | MASK-002 | Spain | http://mgquintana.photography.artlimited.net
15 | Xavier REY | Blue Leman | France | http://xavierrey.free.fr
16 | Bernt Carlzon | Aila | Sweden | http://carlzon.deviantart.com
17 | Sascha Hüttenhain | Thriller |Germany | http://www.huettenhain.com
18 | Saša Lazić | Winter #2 | Hrvatska | http://2884.portfolio.artlimited.net
19 | Marin Mester | Toxic | Hrvatska | http://panchoza.deviantart.com
20 | Ljubica Rapaic | Pilgrim’s Path | UK | http://www.sternoskop.co.uk
21 | Marc Krutiak | Bodega Bay Study #6 | USA | http://www.marckrutiak.com
22 | Ilija Veselica | The Look | Hrvatska | http://www.ilijaveselica.com
23 | Fabio Keiner | today last year | Austria | http://www.artlimited-net/fabiokeiner
24 | Michael Helms | Scar and the Water | USA | http://www.MLHphoto.com

Bulb magazine 00

robart — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:54:19 +0000

LIST BULB Magazine 0

CONTENT

Interview – Denis Grzetic
Project – Tatjana Krstic

GALLERY 24

01 | Stephen Pierce | Black Bullet: Original | USA | http://www.stephenpierce.com
02 | Jelena Balić | Porn princess | Hrvatska | http://esens.deviantart.com
03 | Neven Petrović | Ice 04 | Hrvatska | http://www.myspace.com/nevenpetrovic
04 | Maja Medić | Black and white trip 11 | Serbia | http://jomajazz.deviantart.com
05 | Vladimir Antić | m.m 2 | Serbia | http://werretaler.deviantart.com
06 | Francois Benveniste | No smoking | France | http://www.fbenveniste-photos.com
07 | Mick Ryan | Top hat | People’s Republic of China | http://www.mickryan.com
08 | Loredana Guinicelli | Black star in a white night | Italija | http://www.loredanaguinicelli.com
09 | Peter Vuda | Nika. Dream one | Russia | http://vuda.deviantart.com
10 | Goran Popović | Attaaaack | Hrvatska | http://geniusindahouzz.deviantart.com
11 | Maja Gregurić |I touched you once too often | Hrvatska | http://xciteticx.deviantart.com
12 | Brad Miller | Snakedancer backstage | USA | http://www.munkyhaus.com
13 | Peter Lamata | Mr. Photographer | Slovakia | http://anjelicek.deviantart.com
14 | Kevin Rolly | Journal -Beautiful- May 2007 | USA | http://www.kevissimo.com
15 | Tomislav Može | Stare| Hrvatska | http://www.myspace.com/69production
16 | Dario Belić | Lil’ Monkey | Hrvatska | http://www.dariobelic.com
17 | Sébastien Tabuteaud | Paris is Paris | France | http://www.petitescargot-photos.com
18 | Paul Baranowski | _ | Germany | http://www.occido.de
19 | Nicolas Messyasz | Emprise | France| http://www.nicographie.net
20 | Natalia K. Lerner | The Rhythm Kings | France | http://n–a–t.deviantart.com
21 | MaraB | The great below | Italy | http://www.sonofnoise.com
22 | Goran Kovačević | Zagreb 4 | Hrvatska | http://kovazg.deviantart.com
23 | Veniamin | On The Covers… Every Day… | Bulgaria | http://veniamin.deviantart.com
24 | CanDaN | Not dancing in the rain II.. | Turkey | http://candan.deviantart.com