Rafael Fuchs is a Brooklyn based artist, photographer, director, curator and producer.
He has earned his place as one of the most important photographers of his generation.
A recipient of many awards, Rafael captured portraits and images of some of the most influential figures of the past 30 years, and these images embraced many magazine covers as well as became a part of distinctive private collections and Museums around the globe, as The National Portrait Gallery in London. (Portraits of JK Rowling and Emily Watson.)
Rafael was Born in Tel Aviv, and received his BFA with honors (the Rosa Merkin award) from The Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem in 1984.
His international breakthrough in the art world revealed his personal documentary work, the self portraits series he did in a war zone during a real war time, titled ”Hope For Peace”. The surrealistic/ satirical self portraits he created while serving his obligatory duty as an IDF soldier in Lebanon in 1983, embracing practices of Butoh dance (as theatrical make up) got the attention of Francois Hebel (who became later on the director of Les Rencontres D’ Arles) who included the series in a show he curated in 1984 in Paris.
Rafael gained numerous grants and awards, including :
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, (now The Sharpe_Walentas Studio Program)
Communication Arts Photography,
Photo District News,
American Photographic Artists,
American Photo magazine,
Creativity magazine, and more
Rafael Fuchs’ work is divers
