KITRA CAHANA

  • Bio // Contact
  • TED Talks
  • Published

Artwork

  • Still Man
  • Above As Below

Documentary Film

  • Dancing Towards The Light
  • Amaiya Zafar -The Hijabi Boxer
  • Comforting Vegas
  • Caring For Tor
  • Wishes for Janaya
  • A Different Kind of Force - Policing Mental Illness
  • Perfecting the Art of Longing

National Geographic Magazine

  • American Teen
  • The Cult of Maria Lionza
  • In the Suburbs
  • Teen Mom Graduates

Other Photo Essays

  • Nomadic America
  • The Ben Baruch Family
  • Pilgrimage to Uman
  • Falash Mura
  • Mardi Gras in New Orleans
  • Caravana Migrante
©2023 Kitra Cahana. All rights reserved.

Kitra Cahana (b.1987) is a freelance documentary photographer, videographer, a photo/video artist and a TED speaker. She is a contributing photographer to National Geographic Magazine. She has a B.A. in philosophy from McGill University and a M.A. in Visual and Media anthropology from the Freie Universitat in Berlin.  

Kitra is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including two Canada Council Grants for the Visual Arts, a 2016 TED Senior Fellowship, a 2015 Pulitzer Center for Investigative Reporting grant, a 2014-2015 artist residency at Prim Centre, the 2013 International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award, first prize for the 2010 World Press Photo, a scholarship at FABRICA in Italy and the Thomas Morgan internship at the New York Times.

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Instagram: @kitracahana



 

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