I stumbled upon this photographer's website and her work is incredible. I'm generally not too into photography but some if not most of the shots are just amazing... It seems surreal coming from a country like Canada.
Rachel Papo is an Israeli who was born in 1970 in the U.S. but was raised in Israel. She began photographing as a teenager and attended a renowned fine-arts high-school in Israel. Fifteen years after her mandatory military duty she returned to the Israeli Army as a photographer. These two years of service inspired her current photographic project titled after her own number during service -- Serial No. 3817131.
"At an age when social, sexual, and educational explorations are at their highest point, the life of an eighteen-year-old Israeli girl is interrupted. She is plucked from her home surroundings and placed in a rigorous institution where her individuality is temporarily forced aside in the name of nationalism. During the next two years, immersed in a regimented and masculine environment, she will be transformed from a girl to a woman, within the framework of an army that is engaged in daily war and conflict. She is now a soldier serving her country, in a military camp amidst hundreds like her, yet beneath the uniform there is someone wishing to be noticed, listened to, and understood."
You can view her entire photo project at: http://www.serialno3817131.com/index.html
By: Michaele Laderoute
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