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About the Artist
Nadav Kander is a London based photographer, artist and director renowned for his portraiture and large-format landscape photographs. He was born in Israel, but grew up in Johannesburg and moved to London in 1982 to begin his career in earnest. Nadav’s exceptional work spans over three decades and he has produced some of the most iconic images of our era.
He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, TIME and The New York Times Magazine who in 2009 devoted an entire issue to Obama’s People: 52 portraits of President Obama’s inaugural administration. In 2012 Nadav exhibited at London’s National Portrait gallery as part of a prestigious series of artist commissions by the Olympic Committee. His advertising work continues to build with the recent additions to his portfolio of Cartier and Hennessy. His conceptual portrait work has resulted in a three year relationship with the Almeida Theatre in London producing their artwork. The last few years have also seen him producing imagery for the promotion for shows like Gone Girl, Mr Robot, The Sinner and the Sky success, Chernobyl. He enjoys a close working relationship with a lot of his former sitters which have lead to private portrait commissions.
In 2009 Kander was awarded the Prix Pictet for his ‘Yangtze, The Long River’ series and named International Photographer of the Year at the 7th Annual Lucie Awards. He also received awards from the Art Director’s Club and IPA in the USA, the D&AD and the John Kobal Foundation in the UK and Epica in Europe.
Other accolades include 1st prize in the Staged Portraits – Singles category for World Press Photo Award (2013), Silver Photographer of the Year Award at Lianzhou International Photo Festival (2008) in China and Royal Photographic Society’s ‘Terence Donovan’ Award (2005 and 2007). Nadav received an Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society (2015), and Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award from Sony World Photography Awards (2019).
His work is housed in several public collections and he has exhibited internationally at venues including Les Rencontres d’Arles, Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, Museum of Applied Arts in Cologne, The Photographer’s Gallery, Somerset House and The Barbican in London, and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
Client List
- Absolut Vodka
- Adidas
- Air France
- Almeida Theatre
- American Airlines
- Amnesty International
- Bacardi
- Barnardos
- British Airways
- BMW
- Burjuman
- Cartier
- Champion
- Charles Worthington
- Cinemax
- Dell
- Department of Health
- Dodge
- Empire Magazine
- English National Ballet
- Fedex
- Guinness
- HBO
- Heals
- Heineken
- Hewlett Packard
- Honda
- Hyundai
- HSBC
- Issey Miyake
- ITV
- John Lewis
- Land Rover
- Levi's
- Lexus
- Libertys
- Marriott
- Mercedes Benz
- Morgan Stanley
- Nicole Farhi
- Nike
- Norton
- Orange
- Orbit Gum
- Powerade
- Puma
- Qantas
- Reebok
- Renault
- Tag Heuer
- Telegraph Magazine
- The National Theatre
- The New York Times
- TNT
- Samsung
- Sky Arts
- Sky Atlantic
- Sky Sports
- Sony
- St John's Ambulance
- Umbro
- Volkswagen
Books
Steidl Verlag
2019
The first book dedicated his portraiture, this collection shows the range and nuance of Kander’s work. With his minimal and intuitive approach, Kander shows his interest in universal experience, which transcends the specificity of public persona or status. His enigmatic depictions of actors, artists, musicians, authors, sports icons and political leaders are layered and penetrating, revealing unexpected moments of reverie and vulnerability.
Hatje Cantz
2014
When Nadav Kander learned of the existence of two “closed” cities on the border between Kazakhstan and Russia, he knew that he would have to visit them. For Dust he photographed the desolated landscapes of the Aral Sea and captured fascinating images of the restricted military zones of Priozersk and Kurtchatov, which did not appear on any map until well after the end of the Cold War.
Hatje Cantz
2013
Nadav Kander was inspired by ideas of Elizabethan purity to create these stunning photographic portraits of six nude females and one male. Terms such as “sculptural” and “monumental” are often applied to artworks that are neither. But Kander has created an unnerving stone-like serenity in these portraits.
teNeues
2012
“a long-overdue tribute to one of the most varied photographers of his generation” notes the publisher.This 96-page book features selections from Kander’s vast range of photography—nudes, portraits, landscapes, his Yangtze project, and more.
Flowers East
2009
Formal and frank, yet playful and stylised, Nadav Kander’s individual portraits of the 53 members of President Obama’s cabinet constitute one of the most significant commissioned photographic series of the decade.
Hatje Cantz
2010
Nadav Kander creates images in an age of radical change: in a series awarded the famed Prix Pictet in 2009, he photographed China in the process of revolution. Traveling along the Yangtze River, he took serene pictures of people haplessly facing overwhelming change. As Kander himself says: “China is a nation that appears to be severing its roots by destroying its past in the wake of the sheer force of its moving ‘forward’ at such an astounding and unnatural pace. People scarring their country, and a country scarring its people.“
German Photobook Award in Gold 2011
Arena Editions
2001
‘Beauty’s Nothing’ is composed of chapters of images, interleaved with short stories, poems, and essays, each responding to a particular image or section. Each sequence elaborates a narrative, at times driven by the commissioned texts and often arising from the friction between two dissociated images.
Exhibitions & Events
Solo Exhibitions
Flowers GalleryLondon
Flowers GalleryNew York
Torch GalleryAmsterdam, The Netherlands
Les Recontres d’ArlesFrance
Flowers GalleryLondon
Nanyang Academy of Fine ArtsSingapore
Blindspot GalleryHong Kong
Haggerty MuseumUSA
Flowers GalleryLondon
Edwin Houk GalleryZurich
Flowers GalleryNew York
Festival ImagesVevey, Switzerland
Forum Fur FotografieCologne, Germany
The LowryManchester, UK
Centro Adaluz de la FotografiaAlmeria, Spain
Camera Work GalleryBerlin, Germany
M97 GalleryShanghai, China
Flowers GalleryLondon
Camera Work GalleryBerlin, Germany
Kunsthallen NikolajCopenhagen, Denmark
Flowers GalleryLondon
Flowers GalleryLondon UK
Palais de TokyoParis, France
Acte 2 GalleryParis, France
Michael Hoppen GalleryLondon
Fahey Klein GalleryLos Angeles, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
Historical DockyardChatham
Scottish National Portrait GalleryEdinburgh, Scotland
Weserburg MuseumGermany
National Media MuseumUK
Mouravieff- Apostle House & MuseumMoscow
Museum of Contemporary PhotographyChicago
Flowers GalleryLondon
Flowers GalleryNew York
Flowers GalleryNew York
Barbican Art GalleryLondon
Arles, France
Flowers GalleryNew York
Somerset HouseLondon
Flowers GalleryLondon
MAKK CologneCologne, Germany
National Portrait GalleryLondon
Royal AcademyLondon
Noorderlicht Photo FestivalThe Netherlands
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary ArtIsrael
Three Shadow Space GalleryBeijing, China
Museum of Photographic ArtsSan Diego
Royal AcademyLondon
Musée de l’ElyséeLausanne, Switzerland
Moscow House of PhotographyMoscow, Russia
Caprice Horn GalleryBerlin, Germany
Empty Quarter GalleryDubai
Somerset HouseLondon
Royal AcademyLondon
Thessalonika Museum of PhotographyGreece
Centre National de L’audiovisualLuxemburg
Robert Koch GallerySan Francisco, USA
National Portrait GalleryLondon, UK
Lianzhou, China
Pékin Fine ArtsBeijing, China
National Portrait GalleryLondon, UK
Shanghai Art MuseumShanghai, China
National Portrait GalleryLondon, UK
Ariel Meyerowitz GalleryNew York, USA
Yancey Richardson GalleryNew York
National Portrait GalleryLondon
Yancey Richardson GalleryNew York
Proud GalleriesLondon
National Portrait GalleryLondon
Leeds Metropolitan Art GalleryLeeds, UK
Fahey Klein GalleryLos Angeles, USA
National Portrait GalleryLondon, UK
The Old Truman BreweryLondon
Saatchi GalleryLondon
Awards & Prizes
Sony World Photography Awards
The Royal Photographic SocietyUK
Lianzhou International Photo FestivalChina
UK