Gallery: Black & White

Just some black & white shots I’ve taken over the years — click on a thumbnail for a larger image:

Photo Gallery: Rachel Papo – Serial No. 3817131

Check out this beautiful photo gallery of Israeli girls serving their compulsory military service:

Rachel Papo’s images achieve everything that she set out to do:

I decided to portray female soldiers in Israel during their mandatory military service as a way for me to revisit my own experience. I served as a photographer in the Israeli Air Force between 1988-1990. It was a period marked by continuous depression and extreme loneliness, and at the time I was too young to understand these emotions. Through a series of images showing female soldiers in army bases and outside, individually or in groups, I attempt to reveal a facet of this experience that is generally overlooked by the global community.

Rather than portraying the soldier as heroic, confident, or proud, my images disclose a complexity of emotions. The soldier is often caught in a transient moment of self-reflection, uncertainty, a break from her daily reality, as if questioning her own identity and state of contradiction. She is a soldier in uniform but at the same time she is a teenage girl who is trying to negotiate between these two extreme dimensions. She is in an army base surrounded by hundreds like her, but underneath the uniform there is an individual that wishes to be noticed.

Just Testing a Script

I’m just testing a gallery script using two photos I took some years ago out in the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve. Click on the images below.

Update: Well, it’s not like it wasn’t going to work, but just in case you were wondering, the script works like a champ.

Great Photo Gallery from Gil Azouri

The processing and composition of these shots are incredible:

Photo: La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

Last year my girlfriend and I took a trip to Spain and France — this is one of my favorite shots I took of La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona: