Nadav Kander
Nadav Kander was born in Israel. He grew up in South Africa and moved to London in the 80s, where he lives with his wife, Nicole and their three children.
He is a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Dazed & Confused, Another Man, Rolling Stone Magazine, and The Sunday Times Magazine. Recent commissions include campaigns for Adidas, Dell, Levis, Rolex, Absolut, Stella Artois, Samsung, Puma, Nike.
Kander has won numerous awards from the D&AD and the John Kobal Foundation in the UK; Epica in Europe and the Art Director’s Club and IPA in the USA. He was awarded the Royal Photographic Society’s ‘Terence Donovan’ Award in 2002 and selected for the National Portrait Gallery Photographic Portrait Prize Exhibitions in 2005 and 2007.
In 2008 he awarded the Silver Photographer of the Year Award at the Lianzhou International Photo Festival in China. Nadav’s work forms part of the public collection at the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
In 2005 his show, Keep Your Distance, appeared at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He recently exhibited a collection of portraits at the Shanghai Art Museum and a new series of work on the great Chinese river – Yangtze from East to West – at the Flowers Gallery in London.
Nadav’s latest collection of portraits, Obama’s People, will be exhibited at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery from the 18th April 2009. Publications of his work include his first monograph, Beauty’s Nothing and an exhibition catalogue entitled Night. Nadav is currently working on his second monograph to be published in 2009.
To hear an interview with Nadav Kander on how he made the portraits for Obama’s People, visit Lensculture.
