> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The Door Print: over a year in the making... - URL: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/the-door-print/ - Published: 2023-09-25T07:49:00.000Z - Updated: 2025-02-04T17:20:43.000Z - Description: " It has taken over 300 hours of travel, photography and post production to produce." - Author: Andy Marshall - Tags: door print, door, free stuff ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/09/Door-Print-4x6-web.jpg) **I have to admit, it was a labour of love.** I've seen and bought door prints for my collection - but there was always something missing: light. Every door and every detail on this print was taken in the best light conditions of a particular day - mostly in the raking sunshine - each door has been curated for visual impact. The doors represent over 500 years of architectural history and design. It has taken over 300 hours of travel, photography and post production to produce. It highlights a vast selection of doors, photographed in the UK. 0:00 /0:18 1× --- ## *"* It has taken over 300 hours of travel, photography and post production to produce*."* --- **The Door Print hi-res file is available exclusively to subscribers. Enter your email below and will receive a link for the download page.** ## Sign up for Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest ### Andy Marshall is documenting his travels in his time-travelling camper van 🚐📸🏛 Subscribe Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/09/Screenshot-2023-09-26-at-08.33.10.png) --- ## " ...each door has been curated for visual impact." --- ## Why are doors so intriguing? 0:00 /1:48 1× **In his book ‘The Ongoing Moment’, Geoff Dyer notes the preponderance of photographs of doors. He talks of: “The symbolic tradition of the doorway…as a boundary between life and death.”** Most of my door photos show them tightly shut. By setting them side by side in a matrix of sorts, my intention is to reveal the diversity of human enterprise. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/09/mediamodifier_image-copy.png) The Door Print can be printed up to poster size My photographs of open doors, hint at their revelatory nature, where the door as a subject ‘is always fixed by the possibility of further revelation of deeper levels of initiation and access.’ Whether doors are closed or shut, images of doors become doors themselves; portals into further exploration of the human condition. For photographer Paul Strand, windows and doors especially, take on the ‘character of human living.’ Another photographer, Francesca Woodman, used doors in her photography to explore notions of re-birth, passage and obstruction. --- ## More about the Genius Loci Digest [About the Genius Loci DigestFor over twenty years I’ve been seeking out alternative stories in our surviving material culture and sharing them with my photographs and words.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/02/IMG_9185-2.jpeg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/about-2/) [From Breakdown to New Vocation: My Genius Loci Digest JourneyIn the late 1990’s I had a breakdown that ultimately led me, through a journey that took me away from depression, to a new career in photography. But what was the spark that ignited my journey?![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/12/Andy.png)Andy Marshall's Genius Loci DigestAndy Marshall![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2022/12/chelfie_baglans-1-2.jpg)](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/my-genius-loci-digest-journey/) ## Sign up for Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest ### Andy Marshall is documenting his travels in his time-travelling camper van 🚐📸🏛 Subscribe Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.