User:Star428/ Kitra Cahana

Kitra Cahana is a 22 year old emerging documentary photographer who had a front page of the New York Times during the Israeli Disengagement from Gaza in 2005. 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 graduated from McGill University with a B.A. in philosophy in 2009. She received a first prize in the Arts and Entertainment Category of World Press Photo.