Nadav Kander

Nadav Kander is a professional photographer, he is based in London and was born December 1st 1961 in Tel Aviv, a part of Israel. He's mainly known for his landscape and portrait photographs. When he was 13 he started taking pictures on a Pentax camera which he brought with his Bar Mitzvah money. Around then, he began to look deeply at the work of Strand, Stieglitz, Weston and Atget.

He hated school with dedication and couldn't wait to leave. When Kander was 17 he had a  very bad accident on his motorbike that he had had since he was 15 . After the accident, he never rode again and his focus shifted back to photography.

When he was 21 years old he started working for a photographer named Harry De Zitter.
He's won several awards his first one being in 1997 and it was a Fujifilm Award. His most recent one was in 2015 and that one was for Honorary Fellowship, the royal photographic society.
Kander has wrote numerous books about himself one being The Long River which was named after made several voyages along the course of China's Yangtze River, travelling upstream for 3 years. He had his work exhibited widely.

His parents decided to start again in South Africa and moved to Johannesburg in 1963. When he was 2 years old, sadly his father lost an eye, but Nadav always told his friends that his dad lost his left eye because of flying at extreme altitudes testing Mirage fighter planes for the Israeli Air Force.  But that’s not true.  He flew Boeing 707s for El- Al and lost his eye for medical reasons.

 When he had been drafted into the South African Air Force, Nadav worked in a darkroom printing aerial photographs. It was there he became certain he wanted to be a Photographer.

He moved to London in 1986, where he still resides with his wife Nicole and their three children. On 18 January 2009 Kander had 52 full colour Times. These portraits were of the people surrounding US President Barack Obama, from Joe Biden  (Vice President) to Eugene Kang  (Special Assistant to The President).