The Human Fragment – Paul van Walree’s Search for Presence
For Paul, it began with a child’s curiosity - and a broken plastic camera. Growing up in a small historical town in the Netherlands, he remembers photographing his friends in primary school, eager to preserve what was in front of him.
Paolo Serrau – Nothing Is to Be Taken for Granted
For our first interview in the Rare Storyteller series, we sit down with Paolo Serrau – a photographer whose work is rooted in light, shadow, and memory. Born in Southern Italy in the 1970s, Paolo’s lens is shaped by a childhood of sunlight and silence, the loss of his father, and an enduring search for emotion in every frame. His images, often defined by stark contrasts and deep blacks, are not just photographs but questions – attempts to understand beauty, fragility, and the passing of t
The Atmosphere Between Us – Antje Clausmeyer’s Way of Seeing
Some photographers look for faces, for expressions, for the unmistakable stamp of individuality. Antje looks elsewhere. Since 2021, her lens has been drawn to something more elusive - the atmospheres that hang between people and places.
The Gaze That Finds the Invisible – Marika’s Fragments of Emotion
Some people see the world. Marika feels it. Her photography begins in a split second - an instinct as primal as breath. A flash in the corner of her vision. A flicker that dares her to look closer. In that instant, she knows she must take the shot. It’s not a choice. It’s an adrenaline surge that races from her eyes, through her hands, into the lens. An electricity that demands to be preserved.
The Distance Between Us: Bridging Cultures Through France Leclerc’s Lens
France Leclerc’s journey into photography wasn’t born from a childhood dream or a technical obsession. It didn’t begin with shutter speeds or lighting setups. It began, instead, with a question: How do we understand one another, across all the invisible lines that separate us? For much of her life, France studied human behavior in classrooms and lecture halls. As an academic, she was trained to analyze — to dissect patterns, question assumptions, and find meaning in human action. But ev
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