Rare Storyteller, New Delhi (2025)

26/09/2025

Arturo López doesn’t photograph what shouts - he photographs what whispers. His lens drifts toward the margins: the overlooked, the fading, the silences that carry more weight than words.

For him, photography is not decoration. It’s not about chasing spectacle or staging perfection. It is presence. A wrinkle in a face that tells of generations. A child’s glance that carries both fragility and defiance.

Each frame becomes a dialogue - between the subject, the photographer, and eventually us. Arturo hands us echoes. He makes us stop, pause, and truly see.

In an age where stories vanish faster than they’re told, his work insists on memory. On dignity. On roots that still hold, even when forgotten by the world.

Rare, necessary, and deeply human - this is the voice of Arturo López.

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14/09/2025

The Unlit Stage - Paolo Serrau’s Monograph

With The Unlit Stage, we open the first chapter of our Artist’s Monograph series - a body of work dedicated to giving artists their own space, their own book. Each page of the magazine holds stories - written to echo the weight, silence, and tension Paolo's art evokes. It is a collaboration between vision and voice, between his lens and our words.

Why call it The Unlit Stage? Because Paolo’s work does not shout. It stays in the quiet, in the unresolved, in the fragile moments that escape performance. His photographs remind us that art is not always spectacle - sometimes, it is what exists in the shadows, in the almost-seen, in the unfinished gesture.

For us at Rare Storyteller, this it is a promise - to hold space for artists in their rawest form. To give their work permanence beyond feeds and algorithms. To say: you matter, your vision matters, your art will not disappear in the scroll.

Paolo Serrau is a Rare Artist. And with this monograph, his stage will remain - unlit, but unforgettable.

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13/09/2025

Rare Storyteller has been featured in Big News Network.

This recognition isn’t ours alone - it belongs to every artist who trusted us with their work, and to every reader who stood with us when we chose honesty over noise. You are the reason this vision lives and grows.

Behind the curtain, we’re building more - a gallery, a marketplace, print, and new stages for artists worldwide. Always raw, always real.

Thank you for being part of this journey. The best chapters are still ahead.

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05/09/2025

Some photographs are staged. Paul’s are encountered.

Born in a small town in the Netherlands, Paul first picked up a plastic camera as a child. It broke - but the instinct to see, to preserve, never left him. Years later, with a Zeiss Contaflex in hand, he began chasing moments that could never be repeated. One of his earliest frames - a Cuban man with a cigar - still lives in his memory, not just as an image but as an encounter that shaped him.

For Paul, the street is not about silhouettes or spectacle. It is about people. A glance, a gesture, an unguarded laugh. He gets close - to candids, to portraits - seeking fragments of life that reveal something deeper. His reward is not the perfect shot, but the small miracle of seeing someone as they truly are.

He doesn’t care for age, gender, or appearance. What matters is honesty - the kind that lingers in a portrait, the kind that makes a passerby unforgettable.

To him, a photograph is a recognition. A reminder that life, in its simplest expressions, deserves to be seen.

And this is why Paul van Walree is a Rare Storyteller.

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28/08/2025

The Atmosphere Between Us | Antje Clausmeyer

Some photographers look for faces. Antje Clausmeyer looks for something harder to capture - the atmospheres that exist between people, animals, and places. Since 2021, her lens has been chasing moods, not portraits. Energy, not identity. Stillness, not spectacle.

In her photographs, people appear as carriers of rhythm, posture, and presence - figures who bring life to the street without demanding recognition. Animals, too, are not background. Pigeons, seagulls, crows - they are citizens of the city, dignified participants in the story of urban life.

Antje calls her work “not documentation, but translation.” She doesn’t aim to record the world as it is, but to reveal its charisma, its moods, its atmospheres. What she feels in a moment becomes the story she leaves for us.

Rooted in Wuppertal and uplifted by her community of women photographers, she reminds us that a story doesn’t always need a face. Sometimes, the truest portrait lies in the silence between footsteps, in the glance of a bird, in the stillness of a street bathed in light.

This is Antje’s way of seeing. And this is why she is one of the Rare Storytellers.

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27/08/2025

Between Us | Paolo Serrau

Every journey has a beginning. For Rare Storyteller, this is ours.

We are honored to share our very first interview in a new series we call “Between Us” - a space where artists open their hearts, not just their portfolios. A space for conversations that live beyond the frame.

We begin with Paolo Serrau - a photographer shaped by the light and silence of his childhood in Southern Italy, and by the loss, love, and resilience that continue to echo through his images. His work is more than contrast and composition; it is memory, fragility, and the search for beauty in what is fleeting.

In our conversation, he reflects on the lessons life has given him, the photograph he chose not to take, and the philosophy that keeps him chasing the next image. It is a dialogue not only about photography, but about what it means to be human.

To us, Paolo is a Rare Artist - someone who reminds us that even in shadows, there is light; even in imperfection, there is beauty; and even in silence, there is story.

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14/08/2025

The Gaze That Finds the Invisible

Marika's lens is a key, unlocking what most people never see, or never dare to face. She photographs to ask questions that words can’t hold. To preserve not just what happened, but the pulse, the ache, the unspoken electricity of a moment.

“It’s my way of keeping something alive,” she says. “But also my way of looking inside myself.”

In her images, time doesn’t pass - it lingers. A glance. A shadow. A breath that feels like it’s still warm against your skin.

Her photographs wait for you. They demand you to stop. They dare you to feel.

This is the rare art of turning life into memory - and memory into fire.

We feel proud to share her story at: www.rarestoryteller.com

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05/08/2025

The Distance Between Us: Bridging Cultures Through France Leclerc’s Lens

What happens when a photographer doesn’t just travel the world - but listens to it?

France began in academia - studying human behavior through theory and research. But the deeper questions she carried couldn't be answered from behind a desk.

So she stepped out.
Out into the streets, the rituals, the everyday moments of people across 100+ countries. And what she found was - Connection.

France calls it “life photography.” Unscripted. Unfiltered. Deeply human.

She sits, speaks, learns. Her photography is a quiet rebellion against noise. A practice of empathy. She doesn’t just show us the world. She invites us to feel it.

And this is what it means to be a Rare Storyteller.

Read her story at: www.rarestoryteller.com

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31/07/2025

In the Company of Strangers: The Photographic Journey of Zahed Hassan

Some people just take photos, but Zahed - listens, sips chai, shares a smile - and somewhere in between, he presses the shutter.

Tea vendors. Workers. A hand mid-gesture. Faces that look like someone you’ve known forever. He photographs what we walk past - and makes us stop.

Born in Kakinada, Zahed's journey began by the ocean, watching fishermen return at dusk. His camera became a deeper way to speak.

From the shores of his hometown to the restless streets of Hyderabad, Zahed's camera reminds us that the real story is always right beside us - if only we look closely enough.

A storyteller of the streets, capturing emotions we forgot we felt.

Read his story at: www.rarestoryteller.com

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09/07/2025

"Shadows, Ruins, and the Theater of the Mind"

There’s something haunting in the way Lucia Bottegoni photographs - something that lingers long after the image is gone.

Raised in central Italy, Lucia found her voice through the places that people left behind. Abandoned halls, broken tiles, cracked windows - these weren’t just backdrops. They became breathing spaces for her thoughts, for her models, and for the emotions that don’t usually get framed.

A figure in a decaying room. A child reading in a field of ghosts. A veiled body against an endless sky.
Each frame unsettles, but gently asking you not to understand, but to feel.

Her portraits are layered, cinematic, and raw - like a memory you’re not sure is yours, but can’t stop returning to.

Now featured in Rare Storyteller, her work reminds us: even ruins can speak. Even silence can scream.

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27/06/2025

"Through Strangers, She Found Herself: The Journey of Malikaptures"

In 2022, Malika left everything behind and stepped into the unknown - with a camera, a backpack, and a quiet need to feel connected again. She thought she’d be drawn to landscapes. But it was people - simple, unfiltered, deeply human - that pulled her in. A glance, a silence, a shared laugh with a stranger. That’s what she photographs.

Born in northern France and shaped by constant movement, Malika’s images are more than portraits. They’re lived moments. She doesn’t chase perfection. She seeks presence. “I don’t overthink it,” she says. “I ask, and sometimes people say no. But we still talk, we still laugh. That part matters too.”

Her work is built on trust, instinct, and the courage to walk toward the unfamiliar. It’s how she lives.

Now featured in Rare Storyteller, Malika’s work reminds us that strangers can become mirrors - and that real connection rarely asks for permission.

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03/05/2025

Through light and shadow: The poetic lens of Melahat Ünel.

There’s a certain precision in the way Melahat sees the world - measured, intuitive, and deeply personal. Based in Mersin, Turkey, she began photographing during a time when life felt overwhelming. What started as a way to breathe became something much more: a form of self-recognition.

Her photographs don’t rely on spectacle. They find depth in what’s often passed by - reflections in glass, a shift in light, a moment of stillness. In these frames, she explores emotion without needing to explain it.

As a mother, teacher, and woman reclaiming her own pace, Melahat brings all of herself into the work. Her images carry feeling. And they ask us to slow down long enough to feel it too.

Now featured in Rare Storyteller, her work is a quiet force - honest, clear, and impossible to ignore.

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