Victor Shohet - The Long Way Around
A backpacking trip that was meant to last a few months gradually unfolded into six years on the road, carrying him across Asia, through Europe, and into places experiencing profoun…
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Rare Artists.
Meet the photographers whose perspectives shape the Rare Storyteller archive.
Naomi - Looking With an Open Heart
What catches her attention is rarely the location itself, but the human presence within it - the expressions, struggles, resilience, and dignity that exist behind everyday encounte…
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Selin Ertugrul - Where Light Learns to Observe
Based in Istanbul, Selin photographs public spaces as if they carry invisible emotional structures beneath their movement and noise. Her visual language is deeply influenced by Bar…
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Frédéric Murarotto - When Reality Misses a Step
At first, the image appears ordinary. A portrait. A public space. A familiar gesture caught mid-action. Then something begins to slip. A posture lingers too long. An expression ref…
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Teresa - Staying With What Cannot Be Explained
Teresa’s photographs are built from attention rather than intention. They emerge from time spent within a place, allowing the surface of things to settle and something more measure…
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Jeevan Akash Jayavarthanan - Before the Strings
In a narrow workshop in Thanjavur, before a Veena ever reaches a stage, before it rests against the shoulder of a musician, before it carries devotion into an auditorium – it exist…
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Justyna Gorka - Where People Complete the Place
A place is never complete until someone enters it. This belief runs silently through Justyna Gorka’s photography, shaping images that only come alive through human presence – unrep…
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Ai-Hui Huang - Where Daily Life Leaves a Trace
Ai-Hui Huang’s photographs are born inside everyday life. Her camera comes out during ordinary motion- on the way somewhere, beside family, drifting through streets without intenti…
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Paola Ferrarotti - Notes From a State of Transit
Paola Ferrarotti works from a condition of in-between. Not as a theme, but as a lived state – moving through places, inner shifts, and environments that subtly shape how the body e…
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