{"id":17903,"date":"2014-06-04T10:32:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T14:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=17903"},"modified":"2014-06-04T10:32:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T14:32:05","slug":"photojournalist-kitra-cahana-defends-a-different-kind-of-freedom-at-ted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/04\/photojournalist-kitra-cahana-defends-a-different-kind-of-freedom-at-ted\/","title":{"rendered":"Photojournalist Kitra Cahana Defends A Different Kind of Freedom at TED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/kitra_cahana_stories_of_the_homeless_and_hidden.html\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/kitra_cahana_stories_of_the_homeless_and_hidden\" target=\"_blank\">recent TED talk<\/a>, photojournalist <a href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/contributor\/kitra-cahana\/3098\" target=\"_blank\">Kitra Cahana<\/a> shares the stories of the nomadic, homeless youth she roamed the United States with for months. Tracing her attraction to vagabonds to a bag she packed to run away as a child, Cahana draws parallels between the alternative lifestyle of nomads and the need we all have to escape the confines of everyday life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many of you might be wondering why anyone would choose a life like this,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Under the thumb of discriminatory laws, eating out of trash cans, sleeping under bridges, picking up seasonal jobs here and there. The answer to such a question is as varied as the people that take to the road, but travelers often respond with a single word: freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her five minute talk shares images and arguments for the validity of taking the open road less traveled. Learn more about Kitra&#8217;s intimate approach to photography that blurs the line between subjects and friends in our <a href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/clients\/2013-icp-infinity-awards-young-kitra-cahana\" target=\"_blank\">film<\/a> for ICP&#8217;s 29th Annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icp.org\/support-icp\/infinity-awards-2013\" target=\"_blank\">Infinity Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script id=\"mediastorm-player-e5388d4fe7213f951586\" src=\"https:\/\/player.mediastorm.com\/players\/embed?id=e5388d4fe7213f951586&#038;w=512&#038;h=388&#038;lang=none&#038;start_id=633\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her recent TED talk, photojournalist Kitra Cahana shares the stories of the nomadic, homeless youth she roamed the United States with for months. Tracing her attraction to vagabonds to a bag she packed to run away as a child, Cahana draws parallels between the alternative lifestyle of nomads and the need we all have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":17904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[1816,1409,1817,1815],"class_list":["post-17903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia-projects","category-storytelling","tag-homeless","tag-kitra-cahana","tag-nomad","tag-ted","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}