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We at Impossible are excited to tell you about a fantastic photography and travel competition just launched by Persol to win a brand new Leica M-E and a trip to the Venice Film Festival!

Eyewear brand Persol have just added to their impressive selection with the Reflex Edition, the latest collection of three glasses inspired by classic vintage cameras. To celebrate, they’ve launched the Persol Reflex Edition Photo Contest, giving you the chance to win a trip for 2 to Venice and a brand new Leica M-E that embodies the philosophy of the famed Leica M-System in its purest form.

Running until June 15th 2013, the contest asks you to submit Black & White themed photographs to be judged by Persol’s esteemed jury. They’ll evaluate based on the craft and aesthetic of each photograph. On top of winning a trip for 2, as well as a new Leica camera, the winning artwork will also be exhibited during the Venice Film Festival.

For more details, and to enter, head to www.persol.com/usa/collections/reflex-edition.

Note: Open only to US Residents

We are thrilled to announce that our friends at Kickstarter have invited us to join them in creating “Kickstarter and the Creative City” as part of the IDEAS CITY festival at the New Museum. The festival kicks off at 11am on Saturday May 4th on Bowery, right outside the New Museum.

IDEAS CITY explores the future of cities around the globe with the belief that arts and culture are essential to the vitality of urban centers, making them better places to live, work, and play. Founded by the New Museum in 2011, IDEAS CITY is a major collaborative initiative between hundreds of arts, education, and community organizations. This year’s theme is Untapped Capital, with participants focused on resources that are under-recognized or underutilized in our cities.

We will be utilizing our new product, the Instant Lab, to print out user submitted images of NYC in real time to create a growing exhibition that will evolve throughout the day.

Photo by Francesco Moscato

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Greetings, friends!

As you know, we at Impossible have reinvented instant film, giving you new materials to take beautiful photos with the classic white frame. However, in the past year, we’ve also introduced several Impossible special edition films such as the Nigo, American Woods and Pigeonhole editions with a variety of frame designs.

We asked you to show us the perfect blend of a photo scene and a special edition film frame. We got over 400 submissions to our gallery! It was difficult to choose winners but in the end we selected these 3 photos from Francesco Moscato, Katia and John Carleton.

Congratulations to the winners! Each will be receiving a special edition prize. Thank you to all those who submitted as well, we loved your photos. Keep shooting!

Impossible at the Photo Show Milan 2011

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The largest Italian fair for photography is just around the corner – the Photo Show Milan. And we are about to prepare a unique analog instant exhibition to be presented there at the Impossible booth from March 22-25. Submit your photo now for the chance to join this international group exhibition!

HOW TO SUBMIT

EUROPE ONLY Please note that due to pressure of time we can only accept submissions from photographers based in Europe.

MAX. 2 PHOTOS Upload max. 2 of your very best Impossible photos to our Gallery.
It’s essential that you tag your photo with Photo Show before submitting! Emulsion lifts and creative techniques are welcome!

SUBMISSION DEADLINE March 3, 2013

ORIGINAL PHOTOS You need to have easy access to your originals (winning photos will need to be recieved in our Vienna office by March 15th to be eligible for exhibition). We will return the originals to you after the show.

WINNERS will be informed personally via E-Mail and will be presented as official Impossible photographers, will have their name on our website and in all of our promotional material. Its a great opportunity to have your images exposed to the photographic community as an official Impossible exhibited artist!

Photo by Ben Innocent

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Hello, friends! We are happy to announce the winners from the November-December round of our ongoing photo contest in collaboration with SNAP! Magazine. The theme for November/December was “Plastic.”

Winning images come from Ben Innocent, Thomas Preyer, Giacomo Inches, Sarah Seene, Nicholas Misciagna, Alan Marcheselli, April W., Toby Hancock, Christopher Myers and Ben Lormore.

The 10 finalists will receive $5 off their next purchase with Impossible.

Congrats to Ben Innocent for his Grand prize winning image! Ben will receive a pack of Impossible Film and a mystery prize from Team SNAP!

The next theme is Winter! Please upload all of your wintry photos to our SNAP! x Impossible Flickr Group here: http://shop.the-impossible-project.com/gallery/.

Photo by Tyler Tyndell

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While we love to make holidays last longer, we really pushed it with this one. Please forgive our BOO-boo. Here are the 3 winners of our Halloween Trick or Treat Photo Gallery Contest…

Tyler Tyndell, Amy Siân Green and Andrew Millar!

Congratulations to the winners! They will each receive a set of PX 680 American Woods film. Thanks to everyone who entered. We’ll be sending you a little treat next week to make up for our tardiness!

AND THE WINNER IS….

Ody and Kila Mae! One of our advent calendar delights was a free SX 70 Gold Edition to one lucky fan. We got more than 1500 comments and after many hours of reading, Impossible Co-founder Dr. Florian Kaps selected Ody and Kila Mae’s submission:

Photo by Megan Kirschenbaum

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Hello, friends! We are happy to announce the winners from the September-October round of our ongoing photo contest in collaboration with SNAP! Magazine. The theme for September/October was “Road Trip.”

Winning images come from Megan Kirschenbaum, Thomas Preyer, Gord Iversen, Genevieve, Amber Mahoney, Ashley Saldana, Jade Sheldon, Amalia Chimera, John Carleton and Toby Hancock.

The 10 finalists will receive $5 off their next purchase with Impossible.

Congrats to Megan Kirschenbaum for her Grand prize winning image! Megan will receive a pack of Impossible Film and a mystery prize from Team SNAP!

The theme for September is Plastic! We now have an official SNAP! x Impossible Gallery on our site. For more details on the collaboration, click HERE.

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We’re putting a golden spin on the holiday season this year!

We’ll be giving away this limited edition gold & ivory Alpha SX 70 camera to one lucky fan.

Leave a comment below telling us why you deserve to win! What golden moment will you capture with this camera?

We’ll pick our favorite comment on December 14th. Contest is open to worldwide participants.

Don’t miss this GOLDEN opportunity!

Photo by Dave Knapik

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Never let it be said that Impossible photographers don’t enjoy a good challenge!

We tasked photographers shooting with divot-prone old generation Impossible film to post their most creative divot shots to our Impossible Photo Challenges flickr group. The results were amazing and we had a devil of a time trying to select the 3 winners.

They are:

First Prize
Dave Knapik
http://www.daveknapik.com/

2nd Prize
Zia Kahn
http://ziakhan.tumblr.com/

3rd prize
Peter Lombardi
http://www.peterlombardi.com/

Thanks to everyone who took part!

Photo by E. Staudacher

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Congratulations to the 5 winners in our Spring Comes Alive! photo contest!

These delightful images come from E. Staudacher, Laurène Elliott, Francesca Todde, Caleb Jenkins and Justin Goode, using the following film types: PX 70, PX 600 Black Frame and PX 70 12/11 batch.

Thanks to everyone who entered. Please stay tuned for details on our next contest!

Photo by Melanie Rodriguez

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We are happy to announce the Grand Prize Winner, 1st Runner-Up and 2nd Runner-Up for the HOLDEN X IMPOSSIBLE Timeless In An Instant photo contest!

Final winners were selected by the team at Holden Outerwear

And the winners are…

Photo by Thorsten Finner

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Cycle 6 of the Holden x Impossible Timeless In An Instant photo contest has closed.

The winners of round six were chosen by Impossible’s US team.

And the winner is…

THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT
by Thorsten Finner
Film: PX 680

And Runner Up:
LE QUEEN
by Marko Mastosaari
Film: PX 680

Photo by Melanie Rodriguez

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Cycle 5 of the Holden x Impossible Timeless In An Instant photo contest has closed.

The winners of round five were chosen by California born photographer Kassia Meador. A world traveler at heart, Kassia draws influence from the sun and surf, communicating youthfulness through her sun soaked images.

And the winner is…

BARCELONA
by Melanie Rodriguez
Film: PX 70 Color Shade

And Runner Up:

SUMMER
by Dylan Boyd
Film: PX 680 COOL

Congratulations to Melanie and Dylan! Each will receive an Impossible film pack and a Holden t-shirt.

Don’t miss your chance to become a winner of the 6th and FINAL ROUND and win the last of the bi-weekly prizes – SUBMIT HERE and best of luck!

Photo by Michelle Karpman

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Cycle 4 of the Holden x Impossible Timeless In An Instant photo contest has closed.

The winners of round four were chosen by American photographer Jimmy Fontaine. A fashion and music photographer by trade, Jimmy is interested in communicating candid truth through portraiture.

And the winner is…

Photo by Jessica Reinhardt

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Alongside our exhibition with ACE Hotels in NYC and our Limited Edition PX 600 Silver Shade UV+ film, ACE has been hosting an online photo contest, selecting new winners every month! ACE is collecting submissions of YOUR Impossible images in an ever-growing gallery located online at acehotel.com/impossible. ACE’s panel of romantics and analog enthusiasts will curate a physical gallery show at Ace Hotel New York this Fall, exhibiting selected shots from the contest.

Congratulations to Jessica Reinhardt, Jason Benning and Demian Jacob Mendes – the most recent selected photographers of the ACE contest!

Check out ACE’s gallery and pick your favorite images or submit your own for a chance to win and be featured. Good luck!

Photo by Andrew Millar

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Cycle 3 of the Holden x Impossible Timeless In An Instant photo contest has ended.

The winners of round three were chosen by American photographer Brandon Long. A man of few words, Brandon visually communicates his manifesto through his unending work exclusively on instant film: The Only Magic Left is Art and Nothing on Earth Can Hold it as Prisoner.

And the winner is…

Photo by Pierre Manning

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Cycle 2 of the Holden x Impossible Timeless In An Instant photo contest has now ended.

The winners of round two were chosen by American photographer Angela Boatwright. Beginning her career by capturing the grittiness of the underground New York hardcore and skateboarding scenes in the early 90s, Angela’s profound passion for up-and-coming artists—backed by years of experience as a creative director and photo editor—result in her producing countless magazine features, special projects and art shows.

And the winners are…

Photo by David Sperring.

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Cycle 1 of the Holden x Impossible Timeless In An Instant photo contest has now ended.

The winners of round one were chosen by Italian born photographer Alessandro Simonetti. Alessandro is part of the first generation of Italian kids documenting the HC Punk, Hip Hop and skate Italian scene in the early 90’s. He lives in NYC.

From Ale:

“I’ve been checking more than 400 entries and have gradually collected all the images that captured me, based on a really simple instinct criteria that someone in the past named, “punctum”.

I love the intimacy and the taste of what the instant film introduced in the 50’s and more in a larger scale in the late 70’s, giving the possibility to everyone to have access to the otherwise elitist world of photography. Like digital cameras have done more recently, the Instant films were a really democratic happening.”

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The Impossible Project is thrilled to announce a partnership with Holden Outerwear to celebrate 10 years of creative and cutting edge outerwear. Holden is proud to support Impossible on their mission to bring analog instant photography back to life by offering limited edition Holden X Impossible camera kits, which will include a Holden customized and refurbished vintage SX-70 Polaroid camera, Holden X Tanner Goods leather camera case, and a custom Holden X Impossible co-produced instant film and filter presented in a custom wooden box.

To activate this collaboration, Holden chose 10 well known photographers to use Impossible film to shoot and capture their vision of an independent lifestyle through instant photography…

Image by By Niki

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Continuing our collaboration with ACE Hotels through an exhibition in NYC and our Limited Edition PX 600 Silver Shade UV+ film, ACE has been hosting an online photo contest, selecting new winners every month! ACE is collecting submissions of everyday and exalted Impossible images at an ever-evolving gallery located at acehotel.com/impossible. ACE’s ad hoc panel of romantics and analog enthusiasts will then co-curate a physical gallery show at Ace Hotel New York next fall, comprised of selected shots from this growing community gallery.

Congratulations to the most recent selected photographers of the ACE contest!

December 2011:
Andrea Buia, Judith Kyvik, Gregory Bencivego, Frederik Holmér and Morgane Santamarianova – enjoy your Pink Martini’s Joy To The World holiday record!

January 2012:
Weronika Gajda aka By Niki – enjoy your limited PX Gold Edition Set from Impossible!

Peruse the winners of the past two months here, then check out the growing collection and pick your favorites or submit your own for a chance to win!

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Last week, we held a contest across three social media and file-sharing platforms to celebrate our new Triple Pack bundles. To win, submitting users had to “Like” Impossible on Facebook, follow Impossible on Twitter and submit an image containing three somethings or someones to the Impossible Project Photo Challenges group on Flickr.

Congratulations to the winners, Rachel Carrier, Dan O’Connor and Jenna Gersbach, who each receive a film Triple Pack of their choice!

Brian Henry

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The results are in and the results are scary. We’ve been overwhelmed with your spooky double exposures in our halloween challenge

Congrats to our winners. Not only to they get endless fame and fortune, each of them will receive packs of PZ600 so they can keep the double exposures coming.
1st Place : Brian Henry
2nd Place: Jena Ardell
3rd Place: Cass Cameron

Honorable Mention:
Johnniemay
Violet Allen
Ludwig West

Just because the contest is over doesn’t mean the fun has to stop. Check out our challenge photo gallery and get inspired to create your own impossible double exposures. Scroll down and check out our tutorial to learn how to do easy double exposures on your spectra camera.