Blue (ISSN 1093-7560) was an adventure travel magazine published six times year, founded in 1997[1] by Amy Schrier, with David Carson as the original design consultant.
The New York Times characterized it as "not your father's National Geographic.
"[5] The Christian Science Monitor described the magazine's "social agenda" as being part of its identity.
[7] The photo that was used had been submitted for an earlier magazine, Beach Culture.
[8] Photographer Gary Fabiano's work for a story on refugee camps in Kosovo,[9] was listed in 1999's Life magazine's Best Magazine Photos of the Year special issue,[citation needed] and was a runner-up in the 2000 Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards for Magazine Photography in the category of News (Photo Essay).