Rachel Papo

In 1988 I entered basic training as soldier number 3817131 in the Israeli army. I [VERB] 18 years old. Since the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, both men and women have been required to serve in the military.

The two years I [TO SPEND] as a soldier weren’t easy. I struggled with the army’s ways. Fourteen years later, as I [TO BEGIN] my photojournalism career in New York City, I decided o return to Israel with me camera. I hoped to make sense of [DEMONSTRATIVE] period of my life by visiting army bases to look at how young women today [TO COPE]. It was a little bit strange for me. I was so much older than the girls I photographed, and they didn’t think of me as one of their. If anything, they saw me as just some lady from New York – even though [PRONOUN + TO BE] an Israeli too.

But the project isn’t so much about Israel for me. It’s about the complex and delicate spectrum of adolescent emotions. I get a lot of response about this work, and people all over the world seem to relate to it. “I think your photographs depict the reality of [A VIDA DE UMA PESSOA MILITAR], regardless of gender,” one Vietnam War veteran wrote me. “I am one who believes the differences among regardless of gender are us fewer than we imagine.”

regardless of gender deve ser traduzido como sem atenção ao gênero.