For 2011, Kitra Cahana is traveling around the America.
Kitra Cahana is a young emerging American-born documentary photographer who grew up between Montreal, Canada and Gothenburg, Sweden. She had an early start in her career when, at the age of 17, while photographing the Israeli Disengagement from Gaza, one of her photographs landed on the front page of the New York Times. In 2007 she worked at the New York Times as the Thomas Morgan photographic intern and later in the year received a one-year scholarship to live in Treviso Italy working at Benetton’s research communication center, Fabrica. During her scholarship in Italy she worked on stories around the world for COLORS magazine, including on the Pacific Islands of Vanuatu and Niue and in DRCongo and Kenya. Kitra was chosen to be the 2009 photographic intern at National Geographic Magazine. She recently graduated from McGill University with a B.A. in philosophy and is presently pursuing a M.A. in Visual and Media Anthropology from the Freie Universitat in Berlin.
