No Piña Coladas yet.

These days the final stages of the project “The most beautiful people in the world” are happening.
It is intense, busy and hectic.
Like a climax.
And because the project “The most beautiful people in the world” is in the final stages a field is opening for a new project.
So there is now the climaxing of the project “The most beautiful people in the world” and the excitement of a new project.
Two forceful feelings side by side.
Making it a glorious time.

Is there already an idea for a new project?
A follow up to the project “The most beautiful people in the world”?
Many fervent and loyal blog readers may want to know.

For a long time it was believed that the project “The most beautiful people in the world” was going to be the “magnum opus”* of the 40+ year career.
That nothing could be done in the future that would be as strong and as successful as the project “The most beautiful people in the world”.
That it was the top and no higher peak available.

This was a kind of depressing thought.
Because what to do with the rest of the life?
To sit in a comfortable chair on the beach reminiscing how the success from the past and the piña coladas taste?
Having to realize that the job has been done.
The role has been played.
The duty done.

But then a good friend from India, Mr. Rajendar Menen, proposed to make a book together in his beautiful country.
And that proposal triggered the creativity.
As a natural phenomenon.

Within two days an idea popped up in the mind that has enormous potential.
Just like that.
Not forced or after deep thinking.
But in a natural, matter of fact way.
The ideas, that come by themselves, are always the very best.
Exactly like this one.

And similar how it has been going and still goes with the project “The most beautiful people in the world” , it is the idea, the concept, that affects in a most positive way the persons that get to know about it.
For example, after Mr. Rajendar Menen heard about the idea, immediately he saw the potential, value, importance and commercial possibilities of the plan.

And exactly the same happened with the designer of the book of the project “The most beautiful people in the world” .
Mr. Teun van der Heijden.
When he heard about the plan immediately he was involved.

And this is so beautiful.
It is the plan that becomes a thing by itself and by getting more and more people involved it grows based on their involvement.
It is not the artist-photographer who works with a personal and final concept, as is the tradition.
In this case, like with the project “The most beautiful people in the world”, there is hardly any ego.
It is only the frame that is originating from the artist-photographer and with others the content comes into being.
A fascinating process.

Now, some fervent and loyal blog readers may ask what is the idea of this new project.
To avoid pirating, this question cannot be answered yet…








* Magnum opus, from the Latin meaning great work,[1] refers to the largest, and perhaps the best, greatest, most popular, or most renowned achievement of a writer, artist, or composer.