b. 1961
Nadav Kander is recognized as one of the most original and highly regarded photographers of our time. His work forms part of the public collection at the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Kander’s most recent and highly acclaimed fine art photography project titled “Yangtze - The Long River” won the 2009 Prix Pictet. A monograph of the works in this series was recently published by Hatje Cantz (September 2010).
Other awards include the D&AD and the John Kobal Foundation in the UK; Epica in Europe; the Art Director’s Club and IPA in the USA and the Silver Photographer of the Year Award at Lianzhou International Photo Festival 2008 in China. He was also awarded the prestigious Royal Photographic Society’s ‘Terence Donovan’ Award in 2002 and was nominated for the Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize in 2003.
His portraits of celebrities - from actors to world leaders - appear regularly in top publications such as The Sunday Times Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Time Magazine, Another Man, and Dazed & Confused. In 2009, The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to “Obama’s People”, Kander’s 52 portraits of President Obama’s inaugural administration.
He is currently based in London.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
"Yangtze, The Long River", Camera Work Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2010
"Yangtze, The Long River", m97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
"Yangtze, The Long River", Flowers East Gallery, London, UK
"Selected", Camera Work Gallery, Berlin, Germany
"Obama’s People", Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009
"Obama’s People", Flowers East Gallery, London, UK
"Obama’s People", Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK
2008
"Yangtze from East to West", Flowers East Gallery, London, UK 2005
"Keep Your Distance", Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2002
"Beauty’s Nothing", Acte 2 Gallery, Paris, France
2001
"Night", Shine Gallery, London, UK
"Beauty’s Nothing", Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA
"Beauty’s Nothing", Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1998
Peter Fetterman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
"Edward Burtynsky, Nadav Kander, Robert Polidori", Flowers Gallery, London, UK
"Obama’s People" Nadav Kander/ The Family Richard Avedon, The Kennedy Museum, Berlin,
Germany
2009-2010
Prix Pictet “Earth” Exhibition - touring exhibition, Thessaloniki, Dubai, Dublin, Eindhoven, Moscow, Berlin, Milan, Madrid
2009
"Photo of the Month", National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
"Dystopia", Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, USA
"Melt Down", Flowers Gallery, London UK
"Ecotone", Center National de L’Audiovisuel, Luxembourg
"Parallax", m97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
2008 Lianzhou International Photo Festival 2008, Guangdong, China
"Food and Shelter", Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2007
"National Portrait Gallery Portrait Prize", National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2006
"Shanghai 8th Annual Photography Festival", Shanghai Art Museum, China
2005
"National Portrait Gallery Portrait Prize", National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
"Selected Public Collections
National Portrait Gallery", London, UK
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Monographs
"Yangtze - The Long River", Hatje Cantz, 2010
"Obama’s People", Flowers Editions, 2009
"Night" (Out of print), 2003
"Beauty’s Nothing", Arena Editions, 2001
纳达夫·坎德尔
简历
纳达夫·坎德尔是我们这个时代公认的最有独创性和最受重视的摄影师之一。他的作品，是伦敦的英国国家肖像画廊和维多利亚和艾伯特博物馆的部分公共收藏。
坎德尔的最新的被高度评价的美术摄影项目“扬子：长江”赢得了2009年Prix Pictet摄影奖。一本关于该系列作品的图书，也刚刚由Hatje Cantz出版（2010年9月）。
其他奖项包括D&AD和英国的John Kobal基金会，欧洲的Epica，美国的Art Director’s Club和IPA，还有2008年中国连州国际摄影节的年度银奖摄影师。他还在2002年获得过著名的英国皇家摄影学会的“Terence Donovan”奖，在2003年曾被Schweppes摄影肖像奖提名。
他的名人肖像系列－从演员到世界政要首领－这些作品经常出现在星期日时报杂志，纽约时报杂志，滚石，时代周刊，Another man和Dazed & Confused 中。2009年，纽约时报杂志专题讨论了坎德尔的“奥巴马的人民”系列作品，其中包括52个奥巴马总统就职的肖像。
他目前在伦敦工作。
个展
2011
《扬子：长江》，Camera Work画廊 柏林 德国
2010
《扬子：长江》，m97画廊 上海 中国
《扬子：长江》，Flowers East画廊 伦敦 英国
《纳达夫·坎德尔个展》，Camera Work 画廊 柏林 德国
《奥巴马的人民》，Nikolaj，哥本哈根当代艺术中心 哥本哈根 丹麦
2009
《奥巴马的人》Flowers 画廊 伦敦 英国
《奥巴马的人》伯明翰美术馆与艺术画廊 英国
2008
《长江》摄影个展 Flowers East画廊 伦敦
2005
《保持你的距离》Palais de Tokyo 巴黎
2002
《美既是空》Acte 2 画廊 巴黎 法国
2001
《夜色》Michael Hoppen 画廊 伦敦 英国
《美既是空》Yancey Richardson画廊
纽约
《美既是空》 Fahey Klein 画廊 洛杉矶
1998
Peter Fetterman 画廊 洛杉矶 美国
联展
2010
《Edward Burtynsky， 纳达夫·坎德尔，Robert Polidori》 Flowers画廊 伦敦 英国
《奥巴马的人》 纳达夫·坎德尔 |《家庭》 查德•阿威顿，The Kennedy美术馆 柏林
2009-2010
《地球：扬子，长江》 Prix Pictet摄影奖，巡回展览，塞萨洛尼基，迪拜，都柏林，爱因霍温，莫斯科，柏林，米兰，马德里
2009
《本月照片》 国家肖像画廊 伦敦 英国
《反面乌托邦》 Robert Koch 画廊 旧金山 美国
《融化》 Flowers 画廊 伦敦 英国
《Ecotone》国家视觉艺术中心 卢森堡
《视差》 m97画廊 上海 中国
2008
2008年度银奖摄影师 连州国际摄影节 广东 中国
《食物和掩蔽》 Pekin Fine Arts 北京 中国
2007
肖像奖 国家肖像画廊 伦敦 英国
2006
上海第8界年度摄影节 上海美术馆 中国
2005
肖像奖 国家肖像画廊 伦敦 英国
收藏
国家肖像画廊 伦敦 英国
维多利亚和阿伯特博物馆 伦敦 英国
专论
《扬子：长江》，Hatje Cantz，2010
《奥巴马的人民》，Flowers出版，2009
《夜晚》，2003
《美既是空》，Arena出版，2001
Drawn to the immense scale of China and its development, Kander’s newest project focuses on the Yangtze River, whose banks and waterways provide home and livelihood for hundreds of millions of Chinese. Taken along the river from its source in remote western China to its mouth just off the shores of Shanghai, these photographs, shown here for the very first time, depict the human footprint of habitat and industry that can be seen along the shores of China’s longest river.
Yangtze - The Long River
By Nadav Kander
The Yangtze River, which forms the premise to this body of work, is the main artery that flows 4100miles (6500km) across china, travelling from its furthest westerly point in Qinghai Province to Shanghai in the east. The river is embedded in the consciousness of the Chinese, even for those who live thousands of miles from the river. It plays a significant role in both the spiritual and physical life of the people.
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More people live along its banks than live in the USA, one in every eighteen people on the planet.
Using the river as a metaphor for constant change, I have photographed the landscape and people along its banks from mouth to source.
Importantly for me I worked intuitively, trying not to be influenced by what I already knew about the country. I wanted to respond to what I found and felt and to seek out the iconography that allowed me to frame views that make the images unique to me.
After several trips to different parts of the river, it became clear that what I was responding to and how I felt whilst being in china was permeating into my pictures; a formalness and unease, a country that feels both at the beginning of a new era and at odds with itself. 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. A people scarring their country and a country scarring its people.
I felt a complete outsider and explained this pictorially by “stepping back” and showing humans dwarfed by their surroundings. Common man has little say in China’s progression and this smallness of the individual is alluded to in the work.
Although it was never my intention to make documentary pictures, the
sociological context of this project is very important and ever present. The displacement of 3 million people in a 600km stretch of the River and the effect on humanity when a country moves towards the future at pace are themes that will inevitably be present within the work.
A Chinese man who I became friends with whilst working on the project reiterated what many Chinese people feel: “ Why do we have to destroy to develop?” He explained how in Britain many of us could revisit the place of our childhood, knowing that it will be much the same, it will remind us of our families and upbringing. In China that is virtually impossible, the scale of development has left most places unrecognisable, “Nothing is the same. We can’t revisit where we came from because it no longer exists.”
China’s landscape both economically and physically is changing daily. These are photographs that can never be taken again.
被中国地大物博的景致，和社会发展所深深吸引，他拍摄了一组聚焦于长江／扬子江的新作品。有千百万的中国人赖此河而生，他从发源地青海，一路沿河拍到靠近上海的近郊。这一组照片，第一次在中国展出，描绘这条中国最长河流沿岸的生命脚步，与工业痕迹‧
