Nadav Kander is a Kentish Town-based photographer who is well known for his moody, atmospheric photographs. Scratch that, he\u2019s the man behind some of my most beloved photographs of artists, such as David Lynch, Adam Pearson, Benicio Del Toro and other magnetic subjects, in which his photographic eye for light and darkness pulls powerful auras from the celebrity faces we have seen thousands of times. But now, Nadav\u2019s new exhibition brings together three bodies of work: Dark Line, Colour Fields, and Treow \u2013 but these are not straight forwardly his great portraits, which Nadav once said \u201ccapture more than likeness\u201d, but these are emotive landscape photographs that transform how we see and feel landscape photography. \u201cI do not see a big divide between a portrait and a landscape that shows human intervention and\/or human history,\u201d says Nadav. \u201cThere is a landscape in the portrait and a portrait in the landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n
This much is true within Nadav\u2019s photographs of trees, which he commonly superimposes on top of his famous portraits. Treow, the newest set of photographs in this trio, means not only tree in Old English, but also trust and promise (giving new meaning to the phrase \u201cas strong as oak\u201d). \u201cHow perfect as I, for a long time, have been photographing trees or including them in my landscapes,\u201d says Nadav. \u201cI only found the dormant tree, the sleeping giants, the tree waiting for renewal profound to me. There is a strength to their endurance, their age and a solid patience to their waiting.\u201d Within these photographs of towering trees, Nadav reveals a human element within their prowess \u2013 their wrinkles, their age, their unique shapes \u2013 these photographs humanise the unbreakable promise of their presence. After all, oak trees are close relatives to humans.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nadav Kander is a Kentish Town-based photographer who is well known for his moody, atmospheric photographs. Scratch that,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-113288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}