Women of the Israeli Army
Jan. 21st, 2008 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosI just stumbled across a fasciating website: Rachel Papo: Serial Number 3817131
Rachel Papo is an Israeli who was born in 1970 in Columbus, Ohio but was raised in Israel. She began photographing as a teenager and attended a renowned fine-arts high-school in Haifa, Israel. At age eighteen she served in the Israeli Air Force as a photographer. These two intensive years of service inspired her current photographic project titled after her own number during service -- Serial No. 3817131.
I know women have been soldiers for centuries, but I don't often see images of young women carrying fully-functional weapons around as part of their daily routine. I find many of these images both stunning and disturbing.
Like so many soldiers in this world, they seem far too young to be doing what they do.
Rachel Papo is an Israeli who was born in 1970 in Columbus, Ohio but was raised in Israel. She began photographing as a teenager and attended a renowned fine-arts high-school in Haifa, Israel. At age eighteen she served in the Israeli Air Force as a photographer. These two intensive years of service inspired her current photographic project titled after her own number during service -- Serial No. 3817131.
I know women have been soldiers for centuries, but I don't often see images of young women carrying fully-functional weapons around as part of their daily routine. I find many of these images both stunning and disturbing.
Like so many soldiers in this world, they seem far too young to be doing what they do.
