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A Nostalgic Journey Through My Rediscovered Photo Prints

A Nostalgic Journey Through My Rediscovered Photo Prints

Let's celebrate work that manages to remain timeless even when we forget about it for a while.

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So, imagine this: I'm on a mission to decorate my living room with some works on my newly created art wall.

While sifting through my analogue archive of printed photographs, I stumbled across a collection that had been gathering dust in a forgotten corner. A series I hadn't thought about in ages, but man, did it take me on a trip down memory lane.

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In a happy twist of fate, my trip down memory lane was triggered by a fellow Substacker's newsletter:

Susanne Helmert
. She had shared the intimate story of her old pictures, a cascade of nostalgic reflections on the art she had created in the past. As I immersed myself in her words and photos, I felt a gentle reminder that our creative journeys are woven with threads of shared experience and the universal dance of artistic evolution.

Inspired by her reflection, I began a search through my own print archive, a repository of moments frozen in time. The very act of turning the physical sheets, feeling the texture of each photogra…

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