Nadav Kander

Photographer

In 2009 Nadav Kander (b. 1961) was awarded the Prix Pictet for his Yangtze, The Long River series and was also named International Photographer of the Year at the 7th Annual Lucie Awards. In July 2012 Kander exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London with a series of portraits celebrating London’s hosting of the 2012 Olympics.

His work appears regularly in many international publications. In 2009, coinciding with Obama’s Presidential inauguration, Kander’s 52 full page portraits of the President and his closest colleagues, aides and advisors was the largest portfolio of work to date that has been published in one issue of The New York Times Magazine.

Nadav's work is included in several public collections including National Portrait Gallery, London and the Victoria & Albert Museum. He has exhibited internationally at venues including Musee de L’Elysee, Lausanne, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne, Kennedy’s Museum, Berlin, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, Palais de Tokyo, Paris and Herzilya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel.

A new series of Nadav’s work Bodies. 6 Women, 1 Man, made over the last two years, will be published as a monograph by Hatje Cantz during February 2013. Monographs include: Bodies. 6 Women, 1 Man (2013), Yangtze, The Long River (2010) and Beauty’s Nothing (2001).