Nadav Kander

Nadav Kander is a photographer, artist and a director; who is based in London. Kander is well known for his portraits and landscape photographs. He's even wrote several books of his own, he has also received rewards, he received an honorary fellowship accolade from the Royal Photographic Society. His work is displayed in many museums and galleries, out for people to see, one gallery in particular being National Portrait Gallery, which is in London .


Nadav Kander was born on December 1st 1961 in a part of Israel called, Tel Aviv. When Kander was just 2 years old, his father sadly lost one of his eyes due to medical reasons even though some people had the wrong idea about the cause of it. His father was 37 at the time and struggling to find a job because he had previously been fighting but was unable to due to his missing eye. By 1964 his parents had come to a conclusion and decided to move out of Tel Aviv to South Africa, where his grandfather lived. He pretty much lived there for his whole childhood (18 years) and moved out to England when he was 21 years of age.


On family holidays his dad would take photographs and weeks after returning home, in Johannesburg his dad would treat him and the rest of his family to a slideshow of the amazing photographs he took , this memory stuck with Nadav, he says that this was his introduction into the possibilities of becoming a photographer.


After his Bar Mitvah at the age of 13, Nadav used the money he was given as a gift to purchase his own Pentax camera. Around this age , he began to look closely at the work of; Strand, Stielglitz, Weston and Atget. Looking at all of these made him reach a realisation that each artist was exploring their respective lives. These artists based their off of their outer and  inner surroundings and they still managed to add uniqueness to each piece of work. The type of work they produced and the pictures they captured made him realise that there is no out of bounds, that you can incorporate anything into your photographs. I think their work inspired him and gave him a base idea.
 When Nadav was 17 , he was drafted into e Air Force and he worked in darkroom where he printed aerial pictures for 2 years! This was the time, Nadav became sure he wanted to become a lens artist.


After he left the Air Force, he began to work for Harry De Zitter.
 to conclude, he married a woman called Nicole, they bought a flat in England and settlesd down and had 3 kids.