Nationality Israeli Website vardikahana.com | Name Vardi Kahana Known for Photography | |
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Education The Faculty of Arts: HaMidrasha. Beit Berl Movement Israeli art, Photojournalism | ||
VARDI KAHANA / Extrait 1
Vardi Kahana is an Israeli photographer.
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Biography
Vardi Kahana was born in Tel Aviv in 1959. She grew up in a religious family and attended Zeitlin school. She studied art in HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts, Beit Berl College, but did not graduate. At the beginning of the 1980s, Kahana began her career in photography reporting for "Monitin" magazine, and within a short period of time she settled into magazine photography. In the framework of her job, she has photographed a variety of Israeli figures over the years, gradually turning her work into an integral part of the catalogue of images in which Israeli society lives.
In 1983, she joined Hadashot newspaper and worked for it until 1993, when the newspaper closed. In 1995, she began working for "7 days" newspaper, which is held by Yedioth Ahronoth.
Exhibitions
In recent years, she has exhibited her works at many solo shows around the world, including The Public Library in Amsterdam, Fotomuseum Antwerp, Jewish Museum of Belgium, Pecci Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Academy of Arts, Berlin, Jewish Museum Munich, Haifa Museum of Art, Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Major retrospectives of her work have been shown in The Art Gallery at Yad Labanim Ramat HaSharon and "The Artists House" in Rehovot.
Solo Exhibitions
Works
Her most famous photograph, from 10 February 1983, depicts a demonstration of the Peace Now movement in Jerusalem, on which Emil Grunzweig appears few minutes before his assassination. Kahane's works are in the collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem and other important collections
Recently, Vardi Kahana became the curator of “Local Testimony” - Middle East regional exhibition of photojournalism, runs concurrently with the annual “World Press Photo” exhibition.