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I reunited with @ordinarylight after 500 episodes of his brilliant podcast @nearesttruth - you can listen to it now for free.

We had a long rambling chat exploring Portraits and A is for Ant.

Link in bio.

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https://www.nearesttruthworkshops.com/hannahmodigh

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I spoke with @nearesttruth podcast and the episode is now up on their website. Discussed Fugazi, punk, sobriety, politics, painting, photography and my new book Distribution. Thank you @ordinarylight

My episode is free to listen to, but I encourage anyone interested to subscribe to the Nearest Truth for the full archive of conversations, it’s a great resource.

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I’m very much looking forward to holding a workshop in Athens this October! Find out more on the website below, including details on how to sign up. https:/www.nearesttruthworkshops.com/photographyworkshop. #nearesttruthworkshops

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My friend @jasonhendardy spent a week with one photograph from The Tower and wrote this. A few parts here — the full piece and his other meditations on images are on his Substack: https://jasonhendardy.substack.com

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Tyler Sharkey⁠
Distorted Memory⁠
€35,00⁠
14,4 × 20 cm, 576 p, ills. color, hardcover⁠
ISBN 9789493511002⁠
edit & design: Jurgen Maelfeyt⁠
May 2026⁠
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Link in bio!!⁠
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When Hurricane Ian swept through southwest Florida in October 2022, it left a trail of destruction in its wake. For Tyler Sharkey’s family, eight feet of floodwater washed away nearly everything—including boxes of family photographs that held decades of memories.⁠
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In Distorted Memory, Sharkey recounts his extraordinary effort to rescue over 1,700 waterlogged images, carefully washing, drying, scanning, and digitally restoring them. These were no ordinary photos—they were snapshots of a family’s life, taken by his mother in an era before digital photography, with no negatives or backups to turn to.⁠
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Through this journey, Sharkey explores how memories survive when the physical world fails. The storm had blurred edges, erased details, and lifted portions of the photos, leaving only fragments of the moments that mattered most. What remains is both fragile and resilient—small pieces of a family’s history, preserved against all odds.⁠
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A story of loss, memory, and the power of preservation, Distorted Memory captures the delicate, enduring beauty of what we choose to hold onto, even when everything else is swept away.⁠
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We often think of climate change as a threat to the future, but it’s quietly erasing the past too. Rising seas, wildfires, and heat don’t just destroy land—they destroy history. Cities, landmarks, archives, photographs, even personal memories, vanish or decay, leaving only fragments behind.⁠
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Memory and history are fragile. When parts of the past disappear, we instinctively try to fill the gaps, reconstructing, guessing, and reshaping what remains. Loss doesn’t just erase—it transforms.⁠
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Remembering is not holding onto the past as it was, but engaging with it, interpreting it, and even reinventing it. Climate change may erase the physical traces, but history lives on in the stories we tell and the pieces we choose to preserve. What we keep, what we let go, and what we recreate defines how the past survives.

@sharkeysmalls
@nearesttruth
@jurgen_maelfeyt
@artpapereditions

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I recently spent an enjoyable evening (two and half hours!) talking books and photos over virtual gin and tonic with the prolific photography podcaster and collector Brad Feuerhelm @ordinarylight for his @nearesttruth series. We spoke about the insights into vernacular visual culture that come through looking at a LOT of photographs (I did my PhD about an archive of 55,000 photos but Brad had a phase of looking at 70,000 photos a day!). We shared the visual and magical sensibilities that come from being lapsed Catholics. The chat went from histories of nudism and crisps via Totnes and Lily Dale to Kibbo Kift and KLF. Along the way we shared our admiration for @kim.beil @donlonbooks @sourcephotographicreview @chris__packet @sportsbanger @seance_book @projectbphotos among others. Brad’s series has over 500 interviews with image makers, collectors and interpreters. Dive in for a week’s free listening of the latest conversations via the links in Brad’s bios.

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A few little highlights from some past, very special events :)

MacGuffin Magazine Presentation with Kirsten Algera
@macguffinmagazine

OTAMP 7
@hellotamp @jasbjb @unofficiallolo

Viscose Journal 8 – Sound – Magazine Release
@viscose_journal

ANASTROPHEN Magazine Presentation & Reading as part of FOTO WIEN
@anastrophe.n @foto_wien

HOME ALONE 2026 Calendar Release
@hofer.susanna @amelie_bachfischer @ngy.anna @earth4pple

Sebastian Weissinger – Intervall 2’-5’ – Photo Book Release & Artist Talk
@sebastian_weissinger @kevinxnowak

Magazine Release Party: Hyperreality Festival 2025, documented by zweikommasieben
@zweikommasieben @hyperreality.at

Michael Rathmayr – Remedy – Photo Book Release & Artist Talk
@michaelrathmayr @ordinarylight @nearesttruth

Enten Evente & Pop-up with Michelle Tophinke as part of Vienna Art Book Fair
@finallyfoundagoodusername @daskunstbuch @viennaartbookfair

Bookbinding Workshops with Anna Frey
@workshops.vonfrey

Eric Asamoah – Here, Nowhere Else – Photo Book Release
@ericasamoahstudio @fotohof

Softcover Pop-up at VIU Store Neubaugasse
@viueyewear

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Got a long drive? Brad and I go deep into Glass Mountain and more. I’m pretty sure I fumble a lot. Hard to talk about the untalkable.

Link in bio

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Palm Tree Workshops and Nearest Truth Workshops have partnered to bring you The Exchange Retreat, a weeklong workshop and creative exchange taking place in Santorini, Greece, May 31–June 7.

The Exchange will be led by renowned artists Jim Goldberg and Alessandra Sanguinetti and international curator Holly Roussell, with support from Palm Tree founder Marilena Stafylidou and Nearest Truth founder Brad Feuerhelm.

As two of Europe’s central workshop organizers, PTW and NT conceived this program to facilitate a more in-depth experience for our shared audiences. Sessions will comprise:
* group instruction
* individual meetings
* individual presentations
* group critiques and discussion
* lectures

Apply by February 1 to receive a discount.

Note: We are proud to offer three scholarships for Greek female artists based in Greece.

ℹ️ www.palmtreeworkshops.com and www.nearesttruth.com

@goldbergjim
@alessandra_sanguinetti
@rongsiyu
@nearesttruth
@palmtreeworkshops
#photographyworkshop
#artistretreat
#palmtreeworkshops
#nearesttruth
#theexchangeretreat

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Deutsches in Deutschland 2025

@un_fund
@artpapereditions
@nearesttruth

https://artpapereditions.org/products/eoin-moylan-deutsches-in-deutschland

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