| Vardi Kahana | |
| Birth Date: | 1959 |
| Birth Place: | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Nationality: | Israeli |
| Field: | photography |
| Training: | HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts, Beit Berl College |
| Movement: | Israeli art, Photojournalism |
Vardi Kahana (born 1959) is an Israeli photographer.
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 settled into magazine photography. As part of her job she has photographed a variety of Israeli figures.
In 1983, she joined Hadashot newspaper, working there until 1993 when the newspaper closed. In 1995, she began working for 7 days newspaper, which is held by Yedioth Ahronoth.[1]
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.
Her most famous photograph, from 10 February 1983, depicts a demonstration of the Peace Now movement in Jerusalem, on which Emil Grunzweig appears a few minutes before his assassination.[5]
Kahane's works are in the collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Recently, Kahana became curator of Local Testimony – a Middle East regional exhibition of photojournalism.