Kitra Cahana: My father, locked in his body but soaring free
כיתרא כהנא: אבי, נעול בגופו אך מרחף בחופשיות
Kitra Cahana is a Canadian photographer who blurs the line between anthropologist and journalist. Full bio
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באותה מידה,
במשך ארבעת החודשים הראשונים,
human psychological fear
בדקלום האלפבית
של מחלקת בית החולים
בית הכנסת שלו,
את אצבעותיו אל פניי,
שריר אחר שריר,
לעתים קרובות
למרחב הריפוי ההדדי שלו,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kitra Cahana - Vagabond photojournalist + conceptual artistKitra Cahana is a Canadian photographer who blurs the line between anthropologist and journalist.
Why you should listen
Kitra Cahana is a wanderer. The American-born photographer was raised in Canada and Sweden, with a father who worked as a rabbi and took his family along with him everywhere he traveled. Cahana's itinerant childhood is evident in her work, which has taken her to teenage "rainbow parties," Venezuelan spiritual rituals, Ukranian Ultra-Orthodox prayer sites, American boxcars and bus stops and many more places. The 2014 TED Fellow embeds herself in the societies she documents, playing the part of photojouralist as well as enthnographer.
Kitra Cahana | Speaker | TED.com