Biography Rachel Papo is an Israeli photographer 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. She earned a BFA in Fine Arts from Ohio State University (1991-96), and an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York City (2002-05). Rachel's photographs are included in several public and private collections, and were exhibited and published worldwide. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, pursuing fine art photography and accepting commissioned projects. Rachel's first book, Serial No. 3817131, with a foreword by Charles H. Traub, is out now by powerHouse Books.