Vardi Kahana

Vardi Kahana was born in 1959 in Tel Aviv

Vardi Kahana was born in Tel Aviv in 1959. She grew up in a religious family and went to the Zeitlin school. She studied art at HaMidrasha but left before finishing.

In the early 1980s she started working at Monitin magazine, first as an assistant to its chief photographer, Micha Kirshner. In 1983 she joined the newspaper Hadashot and stayed until it closed in 1993. One of her photos shows a Peace Now protest in Jerusalem on February 10, 1983, minutes before Emil Grunzweig was killed.

Since 1995 she has worked as a freelancer for the 7 Days supplement of Yedioth Ahronoth, mostly shooting portraits. Her staged portraits of public figures use painting, drawing, sets, makeup and collage. In 2007 she published the book Israeli Portrait and opened "One Family" at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, a record of her family made over 15 years.

"One Family" was later shown in cities including New York, Berlin, London and Amsterdam. In 2013 she began curating exhibitions. She is married to Dani Wesley, has 2 children and lives in Ramat HaSharon.