photo: © Nadav Kander, Monument, Utah, USA. Courtesy of Flowers Gallery
The World Photography Organisation (WPO) named photographer Nadav Kander the recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award. He was due to receive the honor in London on April 17 during the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards ceremony.
A personal selection of his work was exhibited from April 18 through May 6 as part of the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards exhibition at Somerset House in London.
The exhibition offered the public a rare opportunity to view seven varied collections of Kander’s acclaimed and lesser-known work in one space.
Nadav Kander (1961) had been working in photography for more than thirty years. His award-winning commercial, portrait, figurative, and landscape work has a distinctive style that often evokes feelings of stillness and unease.
Kander lives and works in London and has published seven books. In 2015, he received an Honorary Fellowship Award from the Royal Photographic Society. His work is held in numerous public collections worldwide, including the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.
Selected earlier projects include The Long River, winner of the Prix Pictet award in 2009, Dust, an exploration of Cold War remnants through the radioactive ruins of secret cities on the border between Kazakhstan and Russia, Bodies 6 Women, 1 Man and Obama’s People, an acclaimed portrait series commissioned by New York Times Magazine. His then-recent series Dark Line – The Thames Estuary is a personal reflection on the landscape of the River Thames where it meets the sea.
Previous recipients of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award include Mary Ellen Mark, William Klein, Eve Arnold, Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt and, most recently, Martin Parr and Candida Höfer.
More information: www.worldphoto.org.
