Kitra Cahana, Young Photographer recipient
Kitra Cahana is a documentary and fine art photographer whose work explores important social, anthropological, and spiritual themes. Born in Miami, but raised in Canada and Sweden, Kitra earned her BA in Philosophy from McGill University and her MA in Visual and Media Anthropology from the Freie Universitat in Berlin.
As a documentary photographer, Kitra embeds herself in communities around the globe, often for years at a time, in order to learn the language of her subjects. She has chronicled the daily lives of teens at a Texas high school, told the story of a Venezuelan cult, and followed a group of nomadic youth across the United States. Her work has been featured on the cover of National Geographic and the New York Times.
Kitra is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a 2013 TED fellowship, the first prize for Arts and Entertainment stories in the 2009 World Press Photo competition, a scholarship at the Benetton research communication center in Italy, the Thomas Morgan internship at the New York Times, and many more.
