Rafael Fuchs was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, and moved to NYC about 20 years ago.
He has been contributing to numerous major American and International magazines (as: Time,Newsweek, Life, W, Glamour, Entertainment Weekly) as well as shooting catalogs and advertising campaigns (Coke, Pepsi,Kool) and images for record labels.
Some of his popular portrait subjects are: : Colin Powell, JK Rowling, Emily Watson, Burt Reynolds,Derek Jeter, Nathan Lane,John McCain,Beyonce,Geoffrey Rush,Chemical Brothers, Michael Stipe, Pink, Julia Stiles and more.
Rafael gained numerous awards from organizations as: Advertising Photographers Of America, PDN, Creativity,Communication Arts, and more.)
Throughout the years he has been exhibiting in a few galleries (as Ace gallery in NY, Ad-hoc and Eastern District in Bklyn)
Rafael has been documenting In the past five years his neighborhood (Bushwick in Brooklyn, NY) and is editing these days his images for a book to be published.