Rachel Papo

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Rachel Papo (* 1970 Columbus, Ohio ) is an Israeli art photographer and photo journalist .

Life

Papo grew up in Israel and took an interest in photography as a teenager. After graduating from an art high school in Haifa , she did her two years of military service with the Israeli Air Force , where she was used as a photographer. From 1991 to 1996 she studied art at Ohio State University , graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts , and then working as a photojournalist. From 2002 to 2005 she studied at the School of Visual Arts , where she graduated as a Master of Fine Arts . She then worked as a freelance photographer, including for the New York Times and Maariv .

She became internationally known in 2008 with the photo series Serial No. 3817131 . There she shows the everyday life of Israeli soldiers in cool pictures . The title is your own personal identification number as a person doing military service. The series was published in the USA, Germany, Israel, Spain, France, Brazil, Estonia, China, as well as in Turkey and Switzerland, including in National Geographic . In 2009 she received the International Photography Award for the series in the Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year category .

Papo lives in Brooklyn.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2009: Serial No. 3817131 and Deperately Perfect, solo exhibition at ClampArt Gallery, New York
  • 2008: Female Soldiers in Focus, group exhibition at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center, Israel.
  • 2007: Solo exhibition at the Hebrew Union College Museum in New York City
  • 2007: Art Chicago, group exhibition at the Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Chicago,
  • 2007: AIPAD, The Photography Show 07, group exhibition at Paul Kopeikin Gallery, New York
  • 2007: Solo exhibition at the Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle
  • 2007: Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice, group exhibition with Gail Albert Halaban and Colby Katz at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida
  • 2006: Serial No. 3817131 Solo exhibition at Milton Weill Art Gallery New York
  • 2006: Photo Vision Award, group exhibition at the Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle
  • 2006: Serial No. 3817131 Solo exhibition at Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
  • 2006: Through a Jewish Woman's Lens, group exhibition at the aurie M. Tisch Gallery, New York
  • 2006: AIPAD, The Photography Show 2006, group exhibition at Paul Kopeikin Gallery, New York
  • 2006: Photo LA, group exhibition at the Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles

Papo's pictures have been included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston , Texas , among others .

Awards

  • Santa Fe Prize for Photography (finalist)
  • New York Foundation for the Arts (Fellowship 2006)
  • International Photography Award (Category Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year, 2009)

literature

  • National Geographic (US edition), No. 10/2008
  • Charles H. Traub and Rachel Papo, Serial No. 381713, New York 2008, ISBN 978-1576874318

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Brief portrait from Random House Australia, accessed on December 28, 2011
  2. ↑ National Geographic (US edition), No. 10/2008, p. 14
personal data
SURNAME Papo, Rachel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Columbus (Ohio)