During a recent dinner with fellow photographer Bas Gijselhart we talked about specializing. He called it your “blue door”: when you focus on creating blue doors you can become extremely good at creating blue doors, you might start getting recognition for it. Now when someone wants the best blue door, they are likely to come to you.
We talked about going through your archive at a fast pace selecting photos that appeal to you. By doing this very quickly you decide before your frontal lobe can kick in, no rational excuses to select or deselect a particular photograph. Then look longer at the selected photos (you can hang them around your house) to find out what concepts, themes, motives emerge from them. Those are things you can run with, explore. Maybe you even discover your blue door in there, like I did last year.
