Nadav Kander

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Nadav Kander
Born 1961
Field Photography
Website http://www.nadavkander.com
Nadav Kander

Nadav Kander is a London based photographer, artist and director, known for his portraiture and landscapes. His work is included in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and other galleries and museums.

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[edit] Early years

His father flew Boeing 707s for El-Al but lost his eye and was unable to continue 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. After being drafted into the South African Air Force, Kander 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.

Nude photography by Kander

[edit] Photography

Kander's best known 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]

Landscape.

[edit] Monograph

Kander published his first monograph, Beauty’s Nothing (Arena Editions) in 2001. He followed up the book 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. Yangtze - The Long River was published by Hatje Cantz [3] in September 2010. Bodies.6 Women.1 Man, was published as a limited edition monograph by Hatje Cantz in February 2013 [4]

[edit] Exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

  • 2012 Yangtze - The Long River, Flowers Galleries, New York
  • 2012 Bodies. 6 Women, 1 Man. Festival Images, Vevey, Switzerland
  • 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:

  • 2012 Yangtze - The Long River, Museum of Applied Arts (MAKK), Cologne
  • 2012 World in London, The Photographers Gallery, London UK
  • 2012 Road to 2012, National Portrait Gallery, London UK
  • 2012 Uncommon Ground, Flowers Galleries, London UK
  • 2012 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London UK
  • 2012 Darmstadter Tag der Fotografie, Darmstadt, Germany
  • 2012 Hollywood In Style, Camerawork Gallery, Berlin
  • 2012 Photography Selection, Flowers Galleries, London, UK
  • 2011 Metropolis, Noorderlicht Photo Festival 2011, The Netherlands
  • 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

[edit] 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.

He won the 2011 London Awards for Art and Performance, photography.

[edit] Selected talks

[edit] 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
  4. ^ http://www.hatjecantz.de/controller.php?cmd=detail&titzif=00003449&lang=en

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