| April 17, 2006 |
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Rachel Papo: Serial No. 3817131
Rachel  Papo was born in Ohio, but raised in Haifa, Israel. At the age of 18, she entered two years of mandatory service in the Israeli military. After serving her time, she returned to the U.S. for art school, but work on a master's thesis drew her back to the Middle East and the young women currently serving in Israel's Army. She tells us this, but not much else. We're left to draw our own conclusions from her portraits of the teenaged soldiers as they stand at attention, nap, shoulder guns that are half the length of their bodies, and wait. And wait, and wait. We don't know what happened before each photo was taken, or what occurred right after. But the very stillness of the images, and the looks on the girls' faces, fulfills one wish that Papo did express: to capture the "less obvious" side of the Israeli Army. (in Photography Exhibits) |
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