Arts and Entertainment, 1st prize
Kitra Cahana
Colors magazine
Colors magazine
26 June, 2009
Arianna Desjardin (19). The Rainbow Gathering is an annual festival that takes place around the Fourth of July holiday weekend in a different American national park each year. Part of the point is to celebrate inclusiveness and pray for world peace. The festival attracts hundreds of teenage runaways and travelers who are nicknamed 'The Dirty Kids'. The 2009 Gathering was held in the Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico.
Kitra Cahana
Kitra Cahana (24) is a Canadian documentary photographer who had an early start in her career when, aged 17, one of her photographs of the Israeli disengagement from Gaza landed ...
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