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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…