Nadav Kander

Nadav Kander
Born	1961 Tel Aviv, Israel
Field	Photography
Website	http://www.nadavkander.com

Nadav Kander

Nadav Kander is a London based photographer, artist and director, internationally renowned for his portraiture and landscapes. His work forms part of the public collection at the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Kander's work is also exhibited in numerous international galleries and museums.

Early years

Kander was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. His father flew Boeing 707s for El-Al but when he lost his eye for medical reasons he was unable to carry on flying. His parents decided to start again in South Africa and moved to Johannesburg in 1963. Kander began taking pictures when he was 13 on a Pentax camera and later when drafted into the South African Air Force, worked in a darkroom printing aerial photographs. He moved to London in 1986, where he still resides with his wife Nicole and their three children, Oren, Ella and Talia.

Photography

Kander's most celebrated images include Diver, Salt Lake, Utah 1997, in which a lone women peers out into the vast lake, and his 2009 portrait of Barack Obama photographed for The New York Times Magazine as a cover feature. Diver, Salt Lake, Utah, 1997 was also the cover image for Kander's Monograph Beauty's Nothing.

On 18 January 2009 Nadav Kander had 52 full page colour portraits published in one issue of The New York Times Magazine. These portraits (from a series titled Obama's People) were of the people surrounding President Barack Obama, from Joe Biden (Vice President) to Eugene Kang (Special Assistant to The President). The same issue also included a series of cityscapes of Washington DC also taken by Kander. This is the largest portfolio of work by the same photographer The New York Times Magazine has ever showcased in one single issue.^[1]

Monograph

Kander’s first monograph, Beauty’s Nothing (Arena Editions) was published in 2001. The book was followed up with a catalogue of nocturnal landscapes entitled Nadav Kander – Night which accompanied his exhibitions at the Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York and Shine Gallery, London. Flowers Gallery ^[2] published Obama's People to accompany the solo exhibition.

Kander's latest monograph Yangtze - The Long River was published by Hatje Cantz ^[3] in September 2010.

Exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

• 2011 Selected Portraits 1999 - 2011, The Lowry, Manchester, UK
• 2011 Yangtze - The Long River, Forum fur Fotografie, Cologne, Germany
• 2011 Yangtze - The Long River, Camera Work Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• 2011 Inner Condition, Obama's People and other Portraits, Centro Andaluz del la Fotografia, Almeria, Spain
• 2010 Yangtze - The Long River, m97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
• 2010 Yangtze - The Long River, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
• 2010 Selected, Camera Work Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• 2009 Obama’s People, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
• 2009 Obama’s People, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, UK
• 2008 Yangtze: From East to West, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
• 2007 Yangtze, Work in Progress, m97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
• 2005 Keep Your Distance, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
• 2002 Beauty’s Nothing, Acte 2 Gallery, Paris, France
• 2001 Night, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, UK
• 2001 Beauty’s Nothing, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA
• 2001 Beauty’s Nothing, Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
• 1998 Peter Fetterman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions:

• 2011 Body Gestures showcasing Obama's People/Nadav Kander together with works by William Cobbing, Thomas Hirschhorn amongst others, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
• 2010/11 Yangtze - The Long River, together with Pripyat and Chernobyl Robert Polidori Camera Work Gallery, Berlin
• 2010 Flowers Galleries, London together with Edward Burtynsky and Robert Polidori
• 2010 Obama’s People Nadav Kander/ The Family Richard Avedon, The Kennedy Museum, Berlin, Germany
• 2009 Earth: Yangtze, The Long River, Prix Pictet Awards, Purdy Hicks, Gallery London, UK touring to Passage de Retz Gallery, Paris, France
• 2009 Melt Down, Flowers Gallery, London UK
• 2009 Dystopia, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, USA
• 2008/9 Photo of the Month National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
• 2008 Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China
• 2008 Food and Shelter, Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
• 2007 Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
• 2006 Shanghai 8th Annual Photography Festival, Shanghai Art Museum, China
• 2005 Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
• 2005 Adieu, Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York, USA
• 2004 Dreamweavers, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA
• 2004 Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
• 2003 Enchanted Evening, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA
• 2002 H20, Western Gallery, Bellingham, Washington, USA Touring to other US Galleries during 2003
• 2002 Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, UK
• 2002 My Cup of Tea, Proud Galleries, London UK
• 2002 DACS Exhibition CISAC 2002 World Congress Queen Exhibition II Congress Centre, Westminster, London UK
• 2002 Signs That We Exist, Leeds Metropolitan Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
• 2002 John Kobal – Ten Years, National Portrait Gallery, London UK
• 2001 Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
• 2001 John Kobal, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (selected 2000, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994) Fujifilm Award Winner 1997
• 2000 A Positive View, The Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
• 1998 The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
• 1996 Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, UK
• 1994 A Positive View, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
• 1994 Source de Vie Exhibition, Paris, France
• 1994 The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK

Awards

In October 2009 Kander was announced as the winner of the prestigious Prix Pictet 'Earth' 2009 for his Yangtze - The Long River series. He was chosen from a shortlist of 12 nominees that included Ed Kashi, Andreas Gursky and Naoya Hatakeyama. The award was presented in Paris at the Passage de Retz by Kofi Annan, Honorary President of the Prix Pictet.[1]

He was named International Photographer of the Year at the 7th Annual Lucie Awards in 2009 and has also received awards from Art Director’s Club and IPA in the USA, from the D&AD and the John Kobal Foundation in the UK and Epica in Europe. He was awarded the Royal Photographic Society’s ‘Terence Donovan’ Award in 2002 and was nominated for the Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize in 2003. In 2008 he was awarded the Silver Photographer of the Year at the Lianzhou International Photo Festival in China.

Selected talks

• Photoworks, Brighton (2010)
• Royal College of Communications London (2010)
• BFF 40th Congress Germany (2009)
• Royal Geographical Society (2008)

References

1. ^ http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=856953
2. ^ http://www.flowerseast.com/Prints_Exhibitions.asp?Exhibition=09KANDER&GE=1 Kander's portfolio at the Flowers East Gallery, London
3. ^ http://www.hatjecantz.de/controller.php?cmd=detail&titzif=00002683&lang=en

External links

• Article written by Sandy Nairne, director of the National Portrait Gallery
• Nadav Kander's web site
• Kander's portfolio at Pekin Fine Art Gallery, Beijing
• Kander's portfolio at m97 Gallery, Shanghai
• Prix Pictet Photography Award
• Nadav Kander news and interviews on Stockland Martel Blog
• We Folk, Nadav Kander's agent in London
• The New York Times Special Inauguration Issue Interactive Gallery of "Obama's People"
• [2]
• 12-minute audio interview with Nadav Kander about "Obama's People"
• audio interview with Nadav Kander
• Olympians strip down as they prepare to make history in Beijing Nadav Kander's photos for Powerade advertising campaign, The Daily Mail
• [3]

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