Photographer Nadav Kander Discusses His Approach to Portraiture

Nadav Kander is a brilliant commercial and fine art photographer. His work is the perfect balance of art and commerce.  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. In a sea of bland and banal photography his work stands out. Have a look.

" I really like the connection that human beings have when there isn’t a great knowledge, like when you first meet people. I would find it very, very hard to photograph a friend well, or to photograph somebody that I knew well. I think that that tension when you first meet people allows you to communicate without speaking"~ Nadav Kander

Exhibition of Photographer Nadav Kander's Images of China From The Royal College of Art, London, 2009 ~ Narrated By Kander

Nadav Kandar Wins Prix Pictet 2009 Photography Award

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Sponsored by the Geneva private bank Pictet & Cie, the Prix Pictet is the world’s first prize dedicated to photography and sustainability. It has a unique mandate – to use the power of photography to communicate crucial messages to a global audience; and it has a unique goal – art of the highest order, applied to the immense social and environmental threats of the new millennium.(from Prix Pictet website)

Photographer Profile ~ Nadav Kander. An Advertising Photographer With A Soul Of An Artists.

Nadav Kander is the arguably the best commercial advertising photographer around. His clients include Nike, Puma, Levi's, GM, Etc. His work is the perfect mix of art and commerce.

"I don't do advertising work to fund other projects ~ if it's great work then working in advertising is as good as doing my own personal projects. What I love about advertising, and why I still want to do it, are the people involved and that three weeks later, 20 million people are going to see the pictures ~ that is really exciting" Nadav Kander